Sheriff and Oren: I have NEVER used WMP. I've never liked it all. Most recently, I found a new program that I use to make my playlists in. ******* DJ. You can load it down with a ton of songs and set it to auto mix and it does everything for you. Plays with the tempo, the song order, everything. Much nicer than what WMP ever thought about doing. If I'm watching a movie, I use Nero Showtime. In a nut shell, I have never liked WMP.

Now, as for the rest of 7, it is very different than any other M$ OS from the past.

I aquired 7 from a not so nameable source, so I tested my copy on my old desktop first.
Here is its system specs- 2.88 Intel Pentium 4, 1.5 gig ram, 60 gid HD. Under XP Professional, at Idle, I was using about 35% of the overall CPU total, and about 1 gig of the ram.
When I switched to 7 on it, at idle I'm using about 10% of the CPU and about 300Meg of the Ram.

The most amazing change was replacing Vista with it. When I bought my laptop, Vista had already been out long enough for me to do some research on its downfalls. IMO, for the average user, the main pitfall was manufacturers putting in the minimum RAM requirement of 2 gig. So knowing this, I built the laptop for 4 gigs on a 64 bit platform. I never had an issue out of it except for the typical Vista slowness.

Under Vista and at Idle, I was using 60% of the 4 gigs of ram that I have. Under 7 at idle I'm using about 33%.

So far I'm very happy.

 

can we get that name unblocked? ******* DJ leaves a bit to the imagination

 

well mine should not have a problem running 7. i have an amd phenom 9550 (2.2ghz), 2 gb 1066mhz ram, 2 160gb sata hard drives (one for storage, the other for programs), a geforce 9800gt 512gb graphics card, a 22x dvd burner and a 750w power supply.

at idle with firefox open i use 0%-1% of the processor(s) and 661 mb of ram.

 

Nah you will be aces with that setup

 

forgot to mention the 8 cooling fans. i got a pretty cool one at tigerdirect that is on the end of a flexible arm and i have it pointed directly at my ram.

you can see it toward the top of the pic, right over the ram.

also forgot to mention the 22" acer monitor. i know it doesn't affect the speed of the pc but it sure is awesome compared to the 17" monitor i used to have.

 

We went from talking about tractors to computers.....Only on DF!












Now I feel left out.....

 

Sheriff, you can never have too many monitors or large enough ones.

I'm trying to save funds to do a custom build, and plan on 2(22") screens.

Purpl, you need to learn computers, bud. It's the new age.

 

Its only been up one night and so far its not bothering me but im used to colored lights since there on all the time in the Truck, I was more worried the GF would not like them but she loves it so far. I just need to get them to loop colors without entering demo mode, demo mode makes them flash and dance around and that got old real fast! As long as there on steady there fine.

 

Great, teach me.

 

Since we are on the subject of computers, Does any one else notice a problem here at DF with abnormally long *** load times when clicking on a thread to read it or when replying or any other thing you do once you are on the site?