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Processing Vista: Is Your CPU Up To The Task?
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Vista’s coming — and whatever you think of Microsoft’s new operating environment there’s one thing you can put money on: Vista will put more strain on your computer than anything else you’ve probably ever seen before.
Most of the emphasis in the scramble to adjust to these new hardware needs has centered on memory. For example, a major reason that Vista will be a pain in the bus (thank you, Microsoft, for deciding that an operating system should be an operating environment) is, of course, Aero, its hoity-toity graphical interface. As you might expect, that’s going to put quite a strain on your computer’s graphics subsystem. Although Vista will scale back on Aero effects if your system is too poorly equipped to use them all, are you really ready to admit that you’re running a hobbled computer to anyone? It’s doubtful. That means at least a new graphics card.
But wait, there’s more. If your graphics memory starts to run low, Vista is designed to borrow from your system memory to fill its needs. We have all said for years how terribly wrong that is because it robs overall potential system performance — you might also want to get yourself a bit more memory. Processing Vista: Is Your CPU Up To The Task? - Technology News by TechWeb
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