Windows 7? Yes, I do. Honestly.
Go back to my XP after about a week.

You're right that the font rendering is crap (or was last I checked anyway - think it was Ubuntu 8.04 I was playing with then). But with a little help from the support forums I got acceptable fonts in the end. Nobody has achieved the MS font rendering and font anti-aliasing on the OS level. And fon...

Like I said earlier I'm kind of an MS hater, but I can give credit where it's due. You might want to give Win 7 a shot before dismissing it, seems to run much better than Vista did. I'm running Win 7 on a weak little netbook and performance is great. Much more responsive than Ubuntu, and maybe slig...

For me, the only thing I've seen that Win 7 will be able to do that XP cant is SSD optimizations out of the box. Some of which you could probably tweak on XP, while a few of the changes will be for win 7 only it seems. Vista does a lot more than XP. Just look up the list of features on wikipedia. I...

@croddie check here http://kovensky.project357.com/ It is a simple MPLayer multi threading edition. Works great... I'm not using MP HC... The MPLayer is the best media player today in Windows environment. For mpeg-2 NVIDIA Pure video decoder is amazing (with hardware acceleration). and here: http://...

The reality is more complicated... . MS Office is a "must" for me and I personally dislike intensively to work with VM emulation. Second, wast majority of Windows programs does not have analogue in Linux. Yes, they have, some boys shouting... but the reality is ugly. Other issue in Linux is the font...

Windows 7 is a disaster. It is a Vista OS in something "new clothes". And Vista for sure was a greatest disaster in the computer OS history until now. The philosophy behind these OS is wrong. They persist with this Vista stupid interface. Why? Nobody knows. Instead of radical changes, they put this ...

Excellent job !!

Volken,

Do these cards support hardware acceleration? h264, MPEG 2...
I'm not so confident to give 280E for one card, which in scope to play one h264 stream needs 50% CPU power... .

Do these new cards support hardware acceleration of h264/MPEG2, XVID streams?
This is important part of the question- to buy, or not to buy.

MikeC wrote:

CA_Steve wrote:Your system will only draw maybe 200-250W while gaming. So, the monstrously large PSU's fan will probably never spin up to an audible level.

And I'd say it'd be very hard to get it past 200W.

If you read the interview of the CEO of the PC Power@Cooling company you will change your mind.

These peoples there at AnandTech does not understand very well the subject, or their criteria of choice are not objective. I never trust that page - it is too subjective.

@nightmorph What you talking about? This motherboard is simple, stable, Intel mobo. I run 24 h/daily/365 HP-Compaq computer totally silent, with guess what mobo? Lite-On. With Lite-On PSU->>far better than any Seasonics and Corsairs. This PSU is only 250 W, totally silent, and HP-Compaq BIOS is tota...