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post #21 of 43
9/29/09 at 10:53am
A party?

Oh goody, lemme bring my party attire.

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post #22 of 43
9/29/09 at 11:59am
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That's good to know. I'm also gonna benchmark the **** outta my Desktop in games to see the difference in OS. See if there is a difference.
This is an interesting point. I have not yet try gaming under W7, but everything I heard so far is positive - meaning it is better than under XP, using the same machine specs that can support W7.

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post #23 of 43
9/29/09 at 12:06pm
Windows 7 is supposed to be "better for gaming" then vista.
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post #24 of 43
9/29/09 at 12:16pm
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Keyword Steve - "supposed". Now they need us to confirm it, at least here at NBF

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post #25 of 43
9/29/09 at 3:46pm
there are some optimizations and changes to the 7 system architectures over Vista, so it should give better performance than Vista, and in some cases better performance then XP. for other cases less than XP, but should still be better than 7.

Vista had some major architecture changes to a lot of stuff. They've had a good period of time since Vista RTM to improve and streamline those, really tightening them up to be killer. I'll be keeping Vista on my notebook for a while, because of some problems with Beta and RC (namely that it didn't turn on any hardware every other boot) and because of my development environment and how deep into the project I am currently, but I'll be using my extra partition for the 7 house party and I'll do some direct benchmark comparisons before I format it again
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post #26 of 43
9/29/09 at 8:18pm
actually i remmebered I have the Enterprise trial (haha, brought this thread full circle) installed on my desktop, so I can do some quick comparisons right now. going to do 3DMark06.

nVidia 7600GT + AMD X2 4400+ 2x1MB + 2GB RAM

Win7 x64 (running stock drivers)
Total: 3291 (I assume thats what it actually was but I cant bring up that session again, I had originally written 3921)
SM2: 1334
SM3: 1215
CPU: 1615

Win7 x64 (running ForceWare 190.62 WHQL)
Total: 3283
SM2: 1332
SM3: 1213
CPU: 1605

Vista x64 SP2 (running ForceWare 178.13)
Total: 3259
SM2: 1333
SM3: 1212
CPU: 1514

Okay done. and now the way it counts scores makes no sense to me
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post #27 of 43
10/5/09 at 10:26am
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Party package!



Amazing that it was sent out from St Louis, MO to Germany!
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post #28 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:07am
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Funny that the disks are in German, even though they have been sent out from USA.
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post #29 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:28am
Something tells me you have the German Language edition. Better have the English Language Pack handy.
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post #30 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:31am
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I wanted the German language edition for my German system. I am glad that they sent it out correctly, was concerned a bit when seeing that the package came from USA.

I already ordered the ones in English from Amazon long ago.

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post #31 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:38am
So are you going to have people over and play MS-themed party games?
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post #32 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:43am
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We will be 6 in totals. It is just a simple get-together as we always do. Will attach some crazy pics afterward.
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post #33 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:46am
Cool.
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post #34 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:49am
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Yep! I need to install a new drive asap and get this W7 Ultimate going. This will be fun.

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post #35 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:52am
It's hard to believe that it's October already. This year has flown by...
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post #36 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:54am
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They did say W7 flies
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post #37 of 43
10/5/09 at 11:56am


I really like it. I was skeptical at first but when I saw the difference in resource useage versus Vista, it made a believer out of me.
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post #38 of 43
10/5/09 at 12:06pm
mine doesnt arrive until Wednesday
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post #39 of 43
10/5/09 at 12:30pm
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The packing slip stated 1oct2009 of date sent from St Louis, MO on mine. Wow! 4 days (inclusive weekend) international shipping! Impressive.

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post #40 of 43
10/5/09 at 12:49pm
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The packing slip stated 1oct2009 of date sent from St Louis, MO on mine. Wow! 4 days (inclusive weekend) international shipping! Impressive.

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They must have heard how important you are.

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