Which mobo you woud lile to change?

idk atm. kinda noob with the latest comp techs. what mobo has at least 1 ide slot for hardisk?
i accidentaly bought new ide hd because i was thought it was my hd fault before. kinda wasted.

Windows 7 to Offer Better Hyper-Threading Support

Improved hardware and software compatibility one of the top three goals of Windows 7 development

Microsoft is working hard to make things better for the launch of Windows 7 following the lukewarm reception to Windows Vista. Vista was plagued with early hardware and software incompatibility issues that were one of the main reasons enterprise customers refused to migrate from XP.

Microsoft says that among the improvements in Windows 7 is better support for Hyper-Threading according to Microsoft's Bill Veghte. Veghte says that Microsoft has been working closely with Intel to beef up Windows 7’s support for Hyper-Threading. Hyper-Threading it a technique used by Intel to allow processing tasks to be divided among multiple cores on a processor.

Veghte said at the Microsoft TechEd conference, "The work that we've done in Windows 7 in the scheduler and the core of the system to take full advantage of those capabilities, ultimately we think we can deliver a great and better experience for you. We need to make sure the ecosystem is really, really ready."

Veghte is keen to get people to understand that Windows 7 won’t suffer from the same early problems Vista had that prevented the operating system from making headway in enterprise environments. He says that Windows 7 is "very, very close" to achieving full compatibility with virtually all hardware and software makers.

Microsoft currently expects to finish Windows 7 by mid-August and offer a final version to consumers and businesses by the holiday shopping season. That is a key target for Microsoft as a better operating system could woo consumers to buy new computers for the holidays. Better computer sales is certainly something that both Microsoft and computer makers need. Microsoft has admitted that Windows sales are down 16% in the most recent fiscal quarter.

interesting but performance like Windows XP?

the Windows 7 release of RC1 already out a few days ago and all my colleagues are trying it out already

crazy

well, im just back from Bandung Indonesia.. shopping there is so cheap and crazy

yup , bought alot.. branded stuff RM40-50 =.=

they using nice dual cores and stuff leh

i will be the ony 1 with S478 system to test W7

Am using windows 7 RC right now. Overall i can say is, the performance is not far away from Windows XP. Using C2D T5300 (1.73Ghz, 2MB cache) pair with 2GB ram, over system were smooth like butter. Guess it wont be a problem for P4.

Just pity that, most of my networking software (eg. network stumbler) aint still not support it. Will revert back to XP soon.

@ray
Yea. But the RC released is seems to be quite good already. If compare with Vista test previously, my 945G will struggle if Aero enable on Vista. The GUI will be sluggish, but in W7 this doesnt occurred at all.

@dlwl
No i dont.. Lazy to install on VM, so just directly dump in for testing. But anyways, is a good one. Looking forward for this windows. As im having some AHCI issues with x64 Vista. Still in investigating for this problem.

for s478, no matter u have lots of ram or less ram, i highly recommend readyboost flashdrives for your system. this is not to add 'ram' to your pc, but increase responsiveness of your applications. readyboost capable flashdrives in reading and writing small chunks of data is around 10x faster than conventional hard disks.

consider it a cache between HDD and RAM. though i have 8GB ram, i m still reaping benefits from 4GB readyboost.

btw, only applicable to vista and w7.

w7 has better compatibility because of native windows xp application compatibility mode, but only applicable to CPU with VT, haha...

VT stuffs seems to be new to me. Is it good to use Win XP in Vista or Windows 7 ? I think old school can't support this.

XP mode needs Intel VT or AMD-V to run...