The official launch of Windows 7 is upon us, and there has never been so much hype for a new Microsoft OS since XP was first revealed. To most people, Vista is either a complete piece of junk, or a necessary evil, although I think that is somewhat unfair. To me, Vista is an improvement over XP in every conceivable way, and I really can’t think of any good reason for someone to be using XP in the last 3 years. Many people do though, and Microsoft wasted no time in working on a replacement for Vista.
The result of dozens of hours of benchmarking and over a hundred charts will answer quite a few questions:
1) If performance is improved, will it be due to improved multitasking and/or multithreading?
2) Can users of old systems (and single-threaded Netbooks) expect a performance increase as well?
3) Will gaming improve on an older CPU with a newer graphics card?
4) Will any gaming improvements be related to driver software (Nvidia vs AMD)?
And probably a lot more!
The system specs were as follows:
Core i7 965 Athlon II X2 550 Athlon 64 3000+
Motherboard Intel DX58SO (X58, DDR3) Asus M3A78-T (790GX, DDR2) Asus M3A78-T (790GX, DDR2)
Memory 4GB Corsair Dominator
DDR3-1333 @ 7-7-7-20 4GB OCZ Blade
DDR2-1066 @ 5-5-5-18 4GB OCZ Blade
DDR2-1066 @ 5-5-5-18
Video Card ATI Radeon HD4890 1GB, Catalyst 9.8
Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB, Forceware 190.38
Audio Disabled
HDD Hitachi DeskStar 250GB 7200 RPM SATAII (reviewed here)
OS Windows 7 Ultimate Edition x64 RTM
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition x64 SP2
All benchmarks will be shown in this order: Core i7 (red), Athlon II (orange), Athlon 64 (blue). You can hover each image if you lose track (sorry, I’m not used to posting 3 sets of data in my articles, and the charts aren’t labelled optimally).
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