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Personally I woud never do it as many programs have issues with it disabled, and some ignore it and write stuff to the HDD on their own when the page file is disabled. That said, if you have massive bits of RAM, you could certainly do that, and you would gain back a number of write/read cycles...

I'll echo what a lot of other folks have said, and say completely ignore XP-64. The manufacturers barely supported it, so finding good drivers outside of video/sound is going to be a bit hard sometimes. Really I would go with either Vista 64 (if you aren't feeling terribly early-adopter), or...

Really in all honesty you want the OS on the SSD. The most HDD read-thrashing occurs on the OS drive. I would then get a large, fast drive for your games, or put them on a small RAID for speed. If you can pull a 4 drive setup (1xSSD for OS, 2xFast drive for games, 1x HUGE for swap and media file...

It works, but there are caveats of course. For the real scoop you should check this little bit from off TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd787668(WS.10).aspx . That goes through the client VPN programs. I've connected to Cisco and Fortigate IPSec based VPNs (manually set up...

Deacon, any torrent client would do that. If you think uTorrent makes it bad, try the additional resource usage from a huge client like Azureus (which is Java based). Try limiting the bandwidth used (especially upload) and you will find you can still use it while doing normal network usage...

I'll echo PrathaPrabhu's comment and say just wait until the 6th of August. Then the full signed RTM code will be released on TechNet and MSDN. Or you could just stick with the Windows 7 RC for now, which you can still download for free through August 20th. You can pick that up over on TechNet...

Apple laptops do most decidedly _NOTE_ have stock standard Nvidia chips. They have two seperate Nvidia 9 series chips. One at a lower clock rate and with certain cores disabled (for low power mode and 2D) and a higher revisioned chip with higher clocks that is full featured, but uses more power...

I ran into similar issues, but mine was with a discreet PCIe Nvidia 8800GT card. Any time anything 3D (other than Aero) engaged, it would stall out and the WDDM would constantly restart itself, only to have it hang again until I end-tasked whatever program/game/etc was utilizing 3D. Yet, I could...

Odd, this may be related to immature drivers for Windows 7 specifically. WDDM1.1 is still a bit of newer technology so it will be a bit for the manufacturers to get really stable drivers. Are you using the Windows 7 specific new drivers (AMD/ATI just released new Catalyst Drivers I believe...

Are you working with the default Windows 7 drivers, or have you tried using the Vista drivers? Are you only getting your drivers from MSI? You might try Intel since they made the chipset for the x58 to find the latest drivers. When there is a lack of drivers for Windows 7, often times Windows...

I'll definitely be upgrading my main PC to Windows 7 come release on October 22nd. More likely, I will back up everything and then do a fresh install so that I have everything clean and kosher. No legacy bits to foul up anything. I currently run Vista x64 on my main PC, Windows 7 RC x64 on my...

Since it is the Windows 7 RC, I would try to just do a fresh install. Also, like you said you tried, try updating the BIOS as well. If the fresh install still doesn't work, then you are probably running into some other issue that has shown itself. Just like f1y said, try it with half of your RAM...