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Old July 21st, 2008   #46 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mudlord View Post
Not a fair contest.

You are running a overclocked hi end C2D with 4GB RAM.
How is that fair compaired to a single core Athlon with a GeForce FX?

It hardly is.

Seriously make sure computers are evenly specced before testing Vista performance against other OSes.
If you read Squall's insane claim you'll see it's a completely fair contest. According to him, his old athlon running xp should still be able to trounce my machine running vista.
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