Conclusion:

Vista definitely seems to have a few performance issues at the moment, yet certainly has the potential to be a great performer in the future. We can see from the few tests that Vista has been optimised for, it performed brilliantly, so when games, applications and drivers are made for DirectX10, we may see a big performance increase across the board, well we can hope can’t we?

If you’re into your games I’d hold off upgrading for now, until there is better driver support from the motherboard and video card manufacturers, and until games have DirectX10 support, as the visual improvements are meant to be a giant leap forward. For the meantime we can only hope that upcoming drivers will fix the issues that exist within Vista, but only time will tell.

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