Overall is cool. But:
- confusing at first (couldnt find the gallery!) but when you get used it's a nice improvement.
- the buttons and text are way too small. This is exactly the opposite as what i expected. Try to see it at 1920x1200 and uou'll understand. I had to rely to the slow see below) tooltips to know what the hell every button was (except the config, play and stop which were obvious).
- Text too small in buttons and gui (ok in the help panel)
- Too much emboss makes the leds seem on and white, when they are off.
- tooltips take to long to appear, same applies for the help text in the middle panel when activated. But this can be related to the general slowness i experience.
- again please remove the transparency below the title bar.
- minimize, maximize and exit buttons on the upper right corner should have some picture in the off state, it's confusing as of now.

It is strange indeed, since you have a slower cpu.

I was straight to bed when i posted. I will elaborate:
The gui takes 3s to load compared to <1s. Then, when i click play it takes more than 5 seconds to start playing! Same settings as the previous version.
Moreover, the library is behaving slowly and weirdly like when you first introduced KS. Maybe some code rolled back? Maybe some optimizations are out?

BTW, ceteris paribus i THINK SQ improved (adaptive).

i'll talk about the GUI in the other thread.

For now i have only one word: SLOW, painfully slow UI and that's from my E8500.

PS: please remove the transparency below the top bar, it is annoying.

Any difference in SQ between the two?
Peter told me that there isnt much more resources involved in octal AP. And i hope so.

I quite agree with this

Do you have any arguments against NAS about SQ, Peter?

Also, I have to figure out the thing about wireless keyboard/mouse (i.e trying without)

Good!
Now we just have to wait for 0.9z

*nods*

Yes.


*scratches head*

Anyway, no mobo will force those features on you. Knowing gigabyte biooses, you can disable all of them at hardware level
(Indeed i did that on mine).
Enjoy your new toy.

I agree with you.

Gerard,

Just DONT install any of the applications bundled with the mainboard and get the drivers (except maybe the network card) from the manufacturers.

The main difference between the two mainboards are the lack of the 2oz copper (the ultradurable) and a little slower video chipset (harder to play BD with it).

Thanks for this comparison
I was waiting for it for awhile.

One is enough. The lite-on must be very good. I have only 2 hdds + SSD.
For your setup i think you did right to take 2.

Well, you have a quad core, I had a dual xeon. Do more tests, i'ts interesting

also agreed