Reply 80 of 105, by cyclone3d
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wrote:Look, because I come from the single-core Windows XP crowd, I'd be supremely happy with a Pentium Dual-Core running around 3GHz for a Windows XP gaming rig. I think it would fit right in with that era's games, as long as the graphics card was up to snuff. I ran my XP laptop for 6 years without real issues on a single-core with no hyper-threading. Even my 2010 gaming rig's i7-860 ran at 2.8GHz for years with Windows 7. Core 2 Duo was "Windows Vista" territory to me, because I never stepped into the multi-Core arena until I was building a Vista system. I didn't hit 4GHz until I got my Skylake i7-6700K in 2015. I never did game on Vista, though. I built an every-day system and in that, I completely succeeded.
Hmmmm. Maybe I'll actually re-built a Vista gaming rig appropriate for the 2008/9 year. I did find my original Vista install disk, but it's Home Premium 32-bit. Anyone here have a 64-bit image? I'm sure the activation code doesn't care if it's 32- or 64-bit.
I have the Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit image. Do you have somewhere I could upload it to? My Google Drive doesn't have enough space left on it. The image is about 4GB. License key doesn't care if you use 32-bit or 64-bit as you guessed.