Disappointment

On Jul 22, 5:44 pm, "Nota Clu" <tyro01...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I recently got a Dell 530 with a Q6600 quad core processor and three gigs of
> RAM. Unfortunately, it came with Vista. I use Dragon Dictate for dictation
> at work. My E6600 with the same CPU (dual core) speed overclocked to
> 3.15GHz and two gigs of RAM running Windows XP beats the crap out of it. I
> am having a very difficult time creating a duel boot system.
>
> I am contemplating wiping the hard drive and installing XP. Any thoughts?

I recently bought XPS420, with the same processor, with Vista.
(It's for an office here, but I do deal with it daily.) It is meant
for
a lot of processor intense, multitasked, scientific computing: in
short, it flies. No complaints about performance. I suggest that
you 'tune it up,' as people say in this thread. Or of course, if you
desire, you can just wipe it out and put XP on it instead.

Btw, Q6600can be overclocked easily; for all I know this is a
provided feature, since versions released some time around
August last year.

Having Vista dual boot with XP is a little project. It's not such
a big deal, but there are a few issues to watch out for. It has
been discussed in this newsgroup, maybe you can search
for those threads?