WinXP to Win7 - No Regrets
I finally made the leap to Win7 Ult x64 with a recent cpu/mboard/ram upgrade...I did install dual boot with XP first then Win7, but its been two weeks now and I haven't needed or wanted to go back to XP yet...never used Vista for more than a day at a time, always went back to XP. Win7 has a few annoying quirks, but I am hacking the registry to get rid of them (dumb desktop icons Libraries and Homegroup) or writing AutoIt scripts to auto-press this or that annoying button...(When I move a folder, don't bug me about thumbs.db or desktop.ini !)...
Overall Win7 is stable (no crashes yet for two weeks), prettier than XP, and dx10/dx11 does a make a difference in some games...(Crysis Warhead Enthusiast Mode is like a different game).
Will be getting another GTX 470 if I hear how surround is working well for everyone, for now SoftTH is still doing nicely...but triplewide + dx10/dx11 would be nice (SoftTH is dx9 only)...
I am not too interested in 3D Vision, I tried the nVidia shutter glasses many years ago and found games harder to play and too dark...
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Core i7-8086K @ 5.0 Ghz | H60 | Nvidia GTX 980 Ti 6GB | Soundblaster Z | Asus Z370-A
16GB DDR4 | Win10 x64 | 3x27" Asus IPS @ 5760x1080 | Samsung 970 1TB NVMe
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