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Case: Digital Storm Twister VALUE (Black Edition)

Power Supply: 620W Corsair HX (SLI Compatible) (Silent Edition) (High-Quality Unit)

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz (1333MHz Front Side Bus) (4MB Cache)

Motherboard: nVidia 650i Core 2 Quad (By: eVGA) (nForce 650i Ultra)

Memory: 2GB DDR2 Corsair at 1066MHz Dominator (Dual Channel) (Extreme-Performance)

Floppy / Media: Sony 1.44MB Floppy (Black Edition) Hard Drive 1: 500GB Western Digital (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)

 

Optical Drive 1: DVD-ROM/CD-ROM (DVD Reader 16x / CD Reader 40x)

 

Optical Drive 2: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 20x / CD-Writer 48x)

Connectivity: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)

Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 768MB (By: eVGA) (PCI-Express)

TV Tuner: ATI TV Wonder 650 (HDTV, Video Recording, FM Radio, Video Input and Capture) Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer (Up to 7.1 Channel)

Cooling: Air Cooled Stage 2 (Silent Artic Cooling Heat-sink (Copper Heatpipes) Case Lighting: Blizzard Internal Lighting (Blue Edition) (Cold Cathode Tubes)

Cabling: Enhanced Interior Air Flow (Optical Drive & Floppy Cables (Blue Edition) User Manual: Personalized Platinum Digital Storm Binder (Includes Paperwork/Benchmarks/CDs/Manuals)

Windows OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home (Includes Service Pack 2) Restore Kit: Digital Storm Specialized Recovery System (DVD Image Based)

LCD Display: Samsung 20 inch (Widescreen) (Black) (High-Performance Gaming Display) Surge Shield: APC SurgeArrest Personal PER7 (7 Outlet) 120V Surge Protector

Speakers: Logitech 5.1 System (Black Edition) (Model X-5400) (Includes Subwoofer)

Keyboard: Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard

Mouse: Logitech G7 Laser Cordless Mouse (High-Speed Gaming Grade)

Great setup, if your going for more of a Media Center PC, go with Vista Premium, if your going for a gaming system --- stick with Windows XP

yea definitely stick with XP for a gaming machine as Vista really plain out sucks, at least till they release a new patch for it so yea stick with XP

It will be a while before that happens, spending about $100 for Vista at a later date is better than sticking with all the trouble and headaches (not alone the time you wasted).

well maybe i am not sure but i would think they would be able to run on XP because so far Vista is really un-stable as of now so later on i would think they would yes be mainly for Vista but able to run on XP.

wow, well in the end i guess wait for the updates to vista and the newer games that will be optomized for vista.

I had heard that Microsoft is considering to have DirectX 10 compatible with XP with a release.  Has anyone else heard that or something like it?

It is a fact that Microsoft will not offer DX10 as an XP tool.  I think it was said that in May or June of next year, XP will no longer be supported.  What gets me, is that last August, they finally stopped supporting 98/ME, I don't understand that why they're nixing XP so quickly since XP is a far more stable OS (it took it damn near 4 years to get it that way, but I digress).  So I will repeat.  DX10 for XP is a hacked up stripped down version of DX10 being released by a hacker group.  It may work, but it won't be a true DX10. 

DX10 will definitely work on XP, however some features will not be available and it may take some time.

"This article doesn't cover the main aspect of DX10 that MS uses as an excuse to not port DX10 to XP.

That is, in Vista, the kernel schedules GPU tasks. This allows multiple clients to use the GPU simultaneously without having to have intimate knowledge of how every client in the system is using the GPU. In that way, it is just like CPU scheduling allows CPU multitasking.

This was needed for Vista because the system uses the GPU to render the UI, while a game may be trying to use it too.

And this cannot be easily ported to XP. Note that GL doesn't do this scheduling either, and it cannot since GL is outside the kernel.

However, under XP, the system doesn't use the GPU at all, so the game using the GPU is the sole client and you don't need this scheduling unless the game itself has multiple tasks to schedule.

So what MS could do (and if I were NVidia I would beg them to do) is bring DX10 to XP with the caveat that games can only have one task using the GPU at once since there is no scheduling. This would allow XP to have much of the DX10 functionality.

But the executive version is MS isn't going to do this because they are using DX10 was a lever to sell copies of Vista.

P.S.: the article in question is useless in arguing this point. Poor choice by the submitter."