A week or 3 ago my new 1TB HDD arrived and so I had to reinstall Windoze. So I thought I'd install Win7 Ultimate to check it out - again . Originally the plan was to reformat after that and fall back to XP since Vista was bloat and junk in its purest form. My previous test install of Win7 (one of the 1st beta's) wasn't much better either. Bad performance, BSOD's and whatnot. I thought of it as Vista #2.

Now since then I switched from dual to quad core and I'd imagine that quite a lot of optimization was done to 7 since the early beta's. Well I have to admit that I have changed my opinion about 7. As it is now it's definitely a worthy replacement for XP and it actually does perform better in some areas (which wasn't the case when I 1st tested it). I guess everyone can change there opinion . Just thought I'd share my opinion for the other peeps who don't want to upgrade from XP to 7 for performance reasons like me at 1st.

It's well worth it, especially if you have a triple or quad core cpu because the load balancing of threads and processes across all cores is a good deal better then on XP:

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^The same test pretty much crippled XP while all (720p HD) videos keep running smooth on 7.

Erm, dunno, your opinions?
Hyperz Reviewed by Hyperz on . Win7, good after all. A week or 3 ago my new 1TB HDD arrived and so I had to reinstall Windoze. So I thought I'd install Win7 Ultimate to check it out - again >_>. Originally the plan was to reformat after that and fall back to XP since Vista was bloat and junk in its purest form. My previous test install of Win7 (one of the 1st beta's) wasn't much better either. Bad performance, BSOD's and whatnot. I thought of it as Vista #2. Now since then I switched from dual to quad core and I'd imagine that quite a lot of Rating: 5