A Second Shot: Windows Vista SP1

by Ryan Smith on February 27, 2008 12:00 AM EST

The Test

Along with testing individual aspects of Vista for specific performance fixes, we have also run a subset of our usual performance benchmarks to see if there are any other notable performance improvements - or alternatively if the performance improvements contained in Vista SP1 will spill out in to more generalized improvements in performance. To that end we’ve run tests on our benchmark rig with both a fully patched installation of Vista RTM/SP0, and again with SP1. Due to time constraints and the fact that we are using Vista x64, we did not include XP benchmarks at this time. With XP SP3 right around the corner, we’ll add XP into the mix soon enough.

Software Test Bed
Processors Intel Core 2 Quad QX6850
(3.00GHz/1333MHz)
RAM G.Skill DDR2-800 (2x2GB)
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P35-DR3R (Intel P35)
System Platform Drivers Intel 8.1.1.1012
Hard Drive Seagate 7200.10 500GB SATA
Video Cards 1 x GeForce 8800GTX
Video Drivers NV ForceWare 169.28
Power Supply OCZ GameXStream 700W
Desktop Resolution 1600x1200
Operating Systems Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit

What’s New In SP1 Vista vs. Vista SP1
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  • stryder256 - Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - link

    Is there any need to be arrogant? He was trying to provide people with a review and you jumped on him...for what? How does that make you a superior intellectual force?
  • 7Enigma - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - link

    Stryder, re-read the comments. They aren't being arrogant towards the OP, they are commenting on the poster after the initial post.

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