I’ve wrote previously about my Vista woes along with perhaps 99% of the rest of the planet’s population. Four weeks ago, I pieced together (literally) some older and newer components to build a new machine. Although on paper, its not all that much, but it blows away the old machine. Continuing the Vista plunge, I decided to put Vista 64 on it. Primarily because I had it and would have had to purchase XP 64.

I also had the option of putting Server 2008 64 on it, but decided not to go there yet. I’m sure you’ve seen the Server 2008 Workstation. One day I will go this route as it is something that intrigues me.

Back to Vista 64. This thing screams! Seeing it easily access more than 4 gigs of RAM while crunching a big fat 3DS Max scene was awesome. What’s really telling is that I can throw a lot of apps at this thing and still have a hard time getting over 4 gigs of memory usage.

As I am running a GeForce 9600GSO card now, I am enjoying the full Aero interface without any hiccups. I’m also getting around 55fps in most of my games playing at 1600*1200.