buying a new computer

i think processor 1.7 isn't good for me.. i think that 3.0 + is good:d

Bravo, student7! I guess great minds really do think alike. When I bought a PC with Vista Home Basic, I "upgraded" to XP with my special disc.

ya what u said is right ...but to my experience i may say that ...even thought microsoft asks u for a 128 mb graphics card minimum ..its not used up completely to show the native vista graphics.....the graphics handling in Vista is superb much better architecture than XP....if u wanna proof then install 3ds max or some 3d application and make a model render it in real time mode...u will see the difference....try this in XP and vista...basically u can argue that dx10 on dx9 card is not used but for me ....the graphics card was utilized the good way in vista then in XP.....i am not arguing with u...its simply sharing my experience.... dont take it hard....

You should Use XP.When you use your PC for graphics-intensive activities, such as playing games or editing video, the information necessary to display images is buffered in graphics RAM. You'll need a lot of dedicated graphics RAM to handle today's complex, texture-rich games. The more complicated the game or image you're viewing, the more memory you'll need. These days, you'll easily find budget graphics cards with at least 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM (some may still come with 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM). You'll want this amount at a minimum, since, for Windows Vista, Microsoft's initial recommendations are to have a graphics board with 128MB of memory to run Vista's Aero Glass graphics-heavy interface. Mainstream and power graphics boards offer 256MB to 512MB of memory; 512MB is common on consumer-level power boards, though at least one board with two graphics processors (see below) offers 1GB of DDR3 SDRAM as of this writing (5/9/2007). Newer boards are starting to offer a theoretically faster DDR4 SDRAM as well.