Killing 2 Birds with 1 Stone

[PoorBoy]

Well I finally broke down and bought my 1'st AMD System It's a HP with a 5600+ CPU, 2 Gigs of Memory, Win Blows Vista Premium plus the usual assorted junk the Manufactures throw into their Pieces of Crap ...

I really wanted one of the new Quads that AMD put out but I don't think now is the time to be buying 1 of them with all the problems I've read about them. The only reason I bought this system is because I got it for $385 including shipping so I figured what the heck, for that Price I get a fairly fast AMD System and get to fiddle with Vista too.

I already have a few articles saved on how to get rid of a lot of the Bloat in Vista & to make it run as fast as XP so I can live with that I guess. If that don't work I'll just format the Drives & put a copy of XP Pro in it. Being new to a AMD CPU might give me some problems though trying to figure out the BIOS, but being it's a HP I don't figure there's much I'll be able to do with it anyway ...

[Nflight]

Keep us apprised of the frustrations and alterations you develop with the system, I would love to know how you like the AMD machine you just got..

[Brucifer]

Well there, as you wander down the road of intense frustration with Vista and figure out some of these "fixes" or "corrections" or whatever they call them, please post the ones that work here so that others, like myself, that also happened to purchase an HP for various reasons can benefit from your experimentation.



I'm assuming too that you got the Vista Home Premium for that price? That's what came with the quad I got.

[drezha]

From what I've been told and seen, Vista isn't hugely bad once you get to the workings of it. Spoken to other users and he says most Vista bashing is done by people unwilling to try and learn something new and get it sorted.

He agrees it would run better with more RAM though ;)

[PcManiac]

I still have not run into any major issues with Vista. IMHO it rocks! I have my main computer running at 100% and I still can have multiple excel, outlook, IE7 ect windows open, and I have not had it blue-screen or anything...

I'd say try it before you bash it! you might like it it is pretty

[PoorBoy]

That's why I just got something as Cheap as I could to try Vista out, it's not like it will have to scream or anything nor will it hurt my daily output either.

This way I get to see what Vista is all about and can tinker with it, I figure I'll have to add a couple more gig's of ram and may have to even throw in a better PSU which I already have laying around than what will come with it.

From the Reviews I've read on the PC some people think it's the Pit's and others a piece of Junk so I'll just have to wait and see, most times when people think somethings a piece of junk it's because they don't know how to tweak a Computer in the first place to get them to run better ...

[Lagu]

Well I finally broke down and bought my 1'st AMD System It's a HP with a 5600+ CPU, 2 Gigs of Memory, Win Blows Vista Premium plus the usual assorted junk the Manufactures throw into their Pieces of Crap ...

I really wanted one of the new Quads that AMD put out but I don't think now is the time to be buying 1 of them with all the problems I've read about them. The only reason I bought this system is because I got it for $385 including shipping so I figured what the heck, for that Price I get a fairly fast AMD System and get to fiddle with Vista too.

I already have a few articles saved on how to get rid of a lot of the Bloat in Vista & to make it run as fast as XP so I can live with that I guess. If that don't work I'll just format the Drives & put a copy of XP Pro in it. Being new to a AMD CPU might give me some problems though trying to figure out the BIOS, but being it's a HP I don't figure there's much I'll be able to do with it anyway ...

Kross in the roof PoorBoy. At least you will see how good AMD is. Sure it is faster than any P4 as you have. Congrats!