Win7 32 or 64-bit?

[Animeniax]

Generally if it's designed to work with Vista it will work with Win7, but XP to Vista/7 is too big a leap and drivers usually aren't compatible across this great divide.

@Killa-Eyez: I work at a helpdesk and we tell everyone to upgrade to Win7 to get away from Vista. It almost always resolves their problem and it increases the life of the PC and the user experience. I like how Win7 64 creates a separate x86 program files folder to help you determine which programs run in 32-bit and which are 64-bit.

[Buffalobiian]

Generally if it's designed to work with Vista it will work with Win7, but XP to Vista/7 is too big a leap and drivers usually aren't compatible across this great divide.

It was an XP-32 to W7-64 jump, but the drivers were al certified and all (it even recommended newer drivers through Windows Update), it was really disappointing.

[Animeniax]

My PC seems to be running faster now, though load times for SC2 are kind of slow.

I was reading reviews for SSD drives and someone posted raves about how his web browser opens in under 1 second with the SSD drive, like that's not standard on regular harddrives.

I'm still debating SSD vs SATA6 Raptor for a boot drive.

[Buffalobiian]

My PC seems to be running faster now, though load times for SC2 are kind of slow.

I was reading reviews for SSD drives and someone posted raves about how his web browser opens in under 1 second with the SSD drive, like that's not standard on regular harddrives.

I'm still debating SSD vs SATA6 Raptor for a boot drive.

If you find it worth considering, SSDs are also silent and much cooler. I can't say too much about performance, reliability and durability since they're still maturing, and I haven't gotten my head around everything yet.

Apparently Seagate made a pretty good hybrid drive though.

[David75]

If you find it worth considering, SSDs are also silent and much cooler. I can't say too much about performance, reliability and durability since they're still maturing, and I haven't gotten my head around everything yet.

Apparently Seagate made a pretty good hybrid drive though.

I would just forget that one, better stick to a mass storage drive and a good SSD, or just forget about SSDs until the prices fall down to better values in the next 3 years, maybe.