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Lucky 7 Upgrade?
By Dre | November 12, 2009
Update: Speedy color version cause I’m sleepy. If you don’t recognize these characters, they are the
So we’ve all heard of the new Windows 7 and how it is the update Microsoft lovers and general Windows users (Xp people) have been waiting for. I had ZERO intentions of upgrading ANY time soon until my brother came over a few days ago and started telling me some facts about his upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. He mentioned how some of the features help categorize and organize files better. He also mentioned that Windows 7 is a much more stable version of similar to Windows Vista.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Microsoft said all this shit before. Big deal.
But then he brought to my attention that he used a 64 bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate and said he can see the difference in speed. At the time I wasn’t too familiar with the difference in a 32 bit and 64 bit system; so I googled that shit like curious george. It seems the difference between a 32 bit system and a 64 bit is the number crunching speed. A 64 bits calculates double the speed of a 32 bit system.
But that’s not all.
The limit of RAM a 32 bit system uses maxes out at roughly 3.25 Gb. That means even if you buy a nice cheap set of 4 sticks of RAM to get that bit more speed out of your system, you will only see 3.25 being used. On the other hand a 64 bit system, such with Windows 7, has a max RAM usage of 192 Gb. I shit you not, if you can SOMEHOW get 192 Gb of RAM on you’re system, Windows 7 will read, register, and use it.(of course taking into accounts the rest of the hardware installed)
I was speechless to find this information out. I mean, all these years of using Windows and I find this shit out NOW?!?!?! In no fucking time at all, I formatted my second internal hard drive, borrowed a copy of Windows 7 from my school, and installed it.
In truth, I wasn’t expecting much. I was just happy I could use all 4 of my gigs of RAM now, but boy was I in for a surprise. I logged in to Windows 7 for the first time and started to install the basics. First came the drivers so my tablet, printer and etc. could be used. Then I begin to install Firefox and move a lot of my files from my old C drive to my new. Slowly, I begin to notice something. It was moving fast, and I mean REALLY fucking fast. There was NO lag when opening and closing files, folders, programs, NONE WHAT SO EVER. Even when I got the occasional error due to driver compatibility issues, when I wanted that fucker closed, it did it, right then and there!!
“Awesome!” I was thinking to myself. “I wonder what else it can do?” So I decided to plug in my HD Cam. I had recorded a few videos in 1080p a while back and they couldn’t play properly on my old Xp system.(the sound would get choppy 5 seconds through) I whipped them out and pressed play with Zoom Player. Same shit happened………Oh well…… But then, for some reason, I decided to open it in the new windows media player. To my complete pleasant surprise, it played perfectly! Ho-oly Shit!
After further testing and comparing I couldn’t come up with any other conclusion than my computer was faster. MUCH faster! And I’m so fucking happy. And to think, I never would have upgraded if my brother would’ve informed me about the benefits.
If you’re interested, my system spec’s are as followed:
Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate
Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 @ 2.40GHz
RAM 4 Gb
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
250 Gb Hard Drive
I will be upgrading my pc completely in the coming months to take full advantage of what a 64bit system can offer.(either that or going to japan, well, that’s a different story)
(24Gb RAM FTW!!!!!)
Topics: Art, News | 3 Comments »
phossil Says:
November 13th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
haha, Madobe Nanami is way too better!! Lol.
FaS Says:
November 21st, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Well, I remember when vista came out, I didn’t really feel any happiness or any emotions in general. I really didn’t for XP either, but you gotta admit, XP is oodles more stable than vista’s crap. In fact, I have similar specs:
HP HDX16T
CPU T9600 – 2.8ghz
RAM – 4 Gigs
Nvidia 9600gtm
1366*768 resolution
blu-ray
But I would upgrade, but I’m scared about a couple things:
Oh, most important reason, I don’t want to pay @ ALL. Especially for windows 7 ultimate, i have vista ultimate
1. Files, don’t want to lose files
2. Installed programs, don’t want to lose not one program. I know most work, but I know there will be that one I love that’ll seep through the cracks
3. Configurations, there are SOOO many custom things I did for vista & I’m sure I’ll have to for 7.
Dre Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 am
Microsoft seems to be giving it out almost free. My school was lending out copies so I just used that.
If you have windows vista you won’t lose a thing. If you have XP and below it will simply save everything in a folder called Old Files or something like that.
I’m not 100% sure on compatibility but things have been going great for me so far. I was expecting some serious problems from not only going Xp to windows 7 but doing so with the 64bit version. So far I haven’t ran into anything that has bothered me. To my knowledge, drivers are the main thing that can’t be properly carried over and have to be redone between windows versions.
Probable, I truly can’t say for certain since I went from Xp to 7.
Is that a laptop?