The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

I don't really see why you need the onboard graphics anyway Russ.
Now coming to you from a rather bare Windows 7 installation - time to get installing all my programs! :S
quite a nice looking OS so far, but it's disappointing that they haven't removed the absurdly long timed wait sections in the installer.

 

lol i didnt have that... i had a 10 min install, shame the beta's desktop crashed every 10mins and PB didnt work

 

Gigabyte has got to have earned a metal for customer service because as long as I've known you you've been sending one board back or another. Back in your D945 days (or was that 940?)I think you went through every revision of the 965 series board. If I was Gigabyte I would be sending you coupons for Asus products. LOL

 

Lol you'd need to, that's the only way you'd be able to afford replacing them every six months when they break...

 

LOL then again sam has 3 asus baoords fail on him. (The p5n-e dont count)

 

3 isn't important. All is what's important.


I find it funny how technology progresses. Unlike the vista drivers, ATI's windows 7 graphics drivers don't even require a reboot, yet windows live messenger does. The graphics drivers even installed quicker. Not sure I prefer the display being blank throughout the entire install process (vista version changed desktop to 800x600 during the procedure, but didn't correct it afterwards), but that's how it is. programs seem to take slightly longer to install than is normal on win7 so far, but I've encountered no stability issues.

 

lol creaky, £50 too much, argos, can be had for £39.99.

then again, the one time i rmad my board was when i took a screw driver to it lol. my p5k-e has been alive over a year, Overclocked an E2140, 100%

 

a year, wow! Even my A8R-MVP lasted longer than that.
Was rather hoping that win7 would use less RAM than vista, unfortunately not the case, which is a bit sad, still 1.75GB usage at the desktop.

 

i instelled vista drivers, stayed 1920x1200 and kept the second screen at 1920x1080, no reboot needed

 

never been the case for me, two separate vista installs, always requires a reboot, always resets display to 800x600 - perhaps that's a service pack 2 feature. After yet another catastrophic network failure in the OS I was done with vista tbh.

 

well i have only had it for a year

 

Windows 7 is officially brilliant

I've got it running smoothly on an old laptop of mine:

Pentium 4 @ 2.60GHz
512MB RAM
nVidia Go 5100

The 5100 says it has 94MB of RAM

 

I generally average 18% usage of my 8Gbs (Roughly 1.5Gbs). And thats while fraps, avg, and firefox are running. Windows 7 is wonderful. However, I still rate it about as good as Xp. Most of my Xp experience has been pretty good. But I never tried to run Xp X64 edition...

 

XP 64-bit was dire, worse than vista.

 

Thats what I've heard. Exactly why I didn't give it the time of day. I have a disc somewhere around here LOL!

 

Can't knock that Windows 7 ships with 32 bit and 64 bit in the same box

Seems like this is the transition O/S... Who bets that the next Windows is 64 bit only?

 

I didn't think it did for the RC, but maybe the disc version is different.

 

Kind of a downer, discovered there's no working sound support for windows 7 yet. Any sound has to stop for an application to open, normally this is only a slight pause, but it means you can't play music or have sound in games. A very disappointing bug I would have thought would have been fixed by release candidate stage, seemingly not.

edit: It looks like a bug with the included chipset driver. Using the vista one from the intel website seems to have cured the problem.


One bug I can't work out how to fix though is there is no support for Alt-Tab in 3D applications. If you alt tab out of a game, there is no means to get back in, as the taskbar bugs and does not send the request to the game, so it still runs, but you can never see it - and have to Ctrl+Alt+Del and start again.