Windows 7 - Upgrade/Clean Install

DIGItonium

Intel X25-M for the desktop and Crucial SSD for the laptop!
I still have the RaptorX for apps, games, digital audio recording/editing, and some video editing. I disabled paging for the X25-M after the fresh install, so Win7 is currently eating up 10GB. Not too shabby. Hopefully it doesn't bloat too much after months of updates.

Win7 got rid of SuperFetch? Sweet... no wonder it felt so nice. I bought 2 sets of G.Skill 2x2GB DDR3 1333MHz memory for around $140-150 total. I'm currently RMA'ing one set. Once my graphics card arrive, then I can do full blown memory testing. It's nice to be able to boot up and test the build with 1GB of memory!

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370Zsteve

Nice. I'm running a Gigabyte i-RAM, it's about 2 yrs old...time for an upgrade one of these days. Works great with WoW and video apps, though. Yeah, baby, who needs paging! Meh, 10GB these days...

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bigaudiofanat

How do you like the ddr 3 as apposed to ddr 2? I was hearing that the ddr2 is actually faster to a point.

DDR2 vs. DDR3 | NordicHardware

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rackley

SuperFetch is one of the things that makes Win7 feel fast. Superfetch learns which apps you use over time, then the OS proactively caches them in RAM. This prevents/minimizes hard faults when you access your frequently used applications. It just does it better than it did in Vista.

If you don't believe me, just try turning it off and see what happens :-)

Win7 in general also makes much better use of RAM - you will see more RAM in use for caching purposes - which is a good thing. The more memory that's on the modified or standby lists, the less the system hard faults to the hard drive, which is slow as dirt.