clipka wrote:
> Hehe, I share your excitement - just got me a brand new Core i7-920, running at
> 2.793 GHz (officially 2.666, but CPU and mainboard seem to agree that cooling
> is far sufficient to run at 21x clock speed, even when POV-Ray is blasting away
> on 8 virtual CPUs simultaneously - 4 cores * hyperthreading - at a room ambient
> temperature of cozy 32 deg. celsius.)

Ooh, the i7.... nice ;) I wonder if Hyperthreading gives much gain on a 
multi-core system. The gains were negligible on the P4.

> Needed to reinstall though: I had my local PC dealer install Windows 7 RC on it,
> but never having gone through the Vista experience before I found it to be a
> total PITA - drivers & software installation trouble on end joining forces with
> a totally unaccustomed user interface and localization scheme to drive me nuts;
> so I'm trying with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition now. So far it's playing
> quite fair - despite seemingly using a similar localization scheme as Vista, but
> at least it's not teaming up with other nasties as far as I can see.
> 

I'm wondering if it's worth it to change the install to Vista64 (it 
seems if you have the retail box, you have 32 bit or 64 bit.)

I'm still a bit leery of going 64bit because of driver/etc... I have 
lots of hardware that has been around for a while, most seems to work 
with 32 bit vista, and I didn't need to shoehorn any WinXP drivers onto 
it, so maybe I'll make the 64bit leap. I'll have to reinstall anyway, 
because of the new MB.

Curious by what you mean by localization scheme?

-- 
~Mike

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