Yes, but dunno if the RC has this feature already.
W7 will be the first SSD optimized OS. Especially "trim" is very important to avoid degradation.

Dont partition, put the pagefile on the same partition. SSD do not defragment in the traditoinal way.


Yes, disable ALL peripherals that you dont need to use. USB may be needed for mouse or keyboard, irDA etc.
blackviper site does not work. What's that?

Anyway you NEED to disable disk defragmenter on the SSD drive. Disable also indexing service (that i would turn off completely in a music pc).


Keep system restore, it is the best thing since Vista came. You need no internet nor antivirus, but if you need to get updates now and then and cannot do though a lan, you should install a good AV, then go online, do all updates and then uninstall the antivirus.


I would try W7 RC first. If you are fine with the drivers, it cannot be worse for sound than Vista. (SP2 is coming too slowly)
Second best would be to wait for Vista SP2 install dvd (no updates needed in that case).

He must also move the TMP and Temp (ideally to the same drive where he would download or decompress stuff) folders from advanced system settings.

How? My fresh w7 64bit uses about 10gb.
We are talking about a pc dedicated to audio (no office, etc)

Very evil thought. 
I like it! 

Yep, based on my suggestion. The vertex is close in performance to the intel MLC, a difference unnoticeable just playing music. It does not hangs like the old models and it is cheap, especially the 30gb version.

Peter got the 60gb verison because he has the development suite and needs more space, but we should be fine with 30gb (this answer the previous post).

Yes! Too quiet.
And I'm waiting for updates :D

Great!


And? Any issue?
I havent ordered the components for my music pc yet.

Cant you use Windows in English? It's years that I only use English software. I hate localizations. Italian ones often are silly.

Vista SP1 (soon SP2) is better than SP0 anyway

BTW, do you guys suggest me to move to the RC? Did they updated the audio stack? AFAIK it wasnt yet in the build 7077 (that i have).

It was also working in previous builds (unlike foobar wasapi ).

Media Portal (2) is my favourite. That was the plugin i was using before v1.0
They screwed up something in the final 1.0 version, asio make an unrecovable error, so it was worthless, but 2.0 is being developed with a much better architecture.

A xxengine3 plugin would be excellent, as well as maybe skinning xxhe.

I think (hope?) it will take less, but xxhe needs improvement in the usability region.
At the moment Peter is focusing on functionalities, some of which lacks in any other software.
Give him some time.

Besides, i think that foobar has NOT the best interface. Take Media Portal, with pureaudio plugin. Thousands better interface, readable with a SMALL handheld device, which foobar isn't. Something like XBMC or any of those media centers, have already the best interface for being read from a small lcd or a handleld (such as my viewsonic panel).

I think that in the shorter time, skinning will help (such as media monkey).

No, thanks

ok, i'm blind :D

Yes, I did.
I have one more comparison request then

+4 attended vs +4 unattended