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I love windows 7.

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UisTehSux
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States693 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-06 06:04:23
January 13 2011 18:49 GMT
#1
So during Christmas my girlfriend knew just the right gift for me:

[image loading]

I was upgrading to a whole new chipset, with new RAM, getting rid of all that DDR2 and USB2.0 jazz for DDR3 and USB3.0.

I had never upgraded a computer before by just swapping the motherboards and went to research some how-to's online.

I read alot of forums. Some saying windows 7 required a clean reinstall, some saying it just recognized it. Most of the posts were from old-time forum goers talking about how XP was EZPZ.

Well I wrote down all the info I needed (windows activation key) incase it all worked and I had to call microsoft for reactivation and piled it all in.

To my surprise, it worked! Plug n' play motherboard? Windows 7 rocks!

Once I got to my desktop windows 7 found and downloaded all the drivers for me without even pushing a button! After running the mobo DVD and installing all the auto OC software, I brought my crappy Athlon II @ 3.0ghz to 3.7GHz with just a click.

After about 30-mins a pop-up flashed on to screen saying I needed to reactivate. It did it online for me! Painless!

Windows 7, I love you. <3

**EDIT** + Show Spoiler +
Shitty phone picture of my new shiny mobo!
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I underestimated that boy. No... it was not the boy I underestimated, it was the Triforce of Courage.
Cadgers
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States514 Posts
January 13 2011 18:57 GMT
#2
I've had since last semester and I've definitely enjoyed it way more than I thought. I guess I shouldn't have listened to everyone on how amazing XP still was.
Lyter
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United Kingdom2145 Posts
January 13 2011 19:01 GMT
#3
i also approve of Windows 7. However, currently I'm a bit angry with it as I can't activate my copy, my windows 7 is an upgrade version for XP/Vista and initially it was great, and then my hard drive failed and I had to pick up a new one, so clean 7 installation and I can't activate I would need to arbitrarily upgrade again, but I got rid of my XP copy
ProjectVirtue
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada360 Posts
January 13 2011 19:04 GMT
#4
Just a heads up, you can use a WAT remover to remove the activation tool lol
You still get all the windows updates, but it doesn't hassle you to activate.
Cause i installed windows 7 on my laptop and found myself with this small problem, so i removed the activation tool entirely and voila, completely unlocked without any cracking crap.

In relation to the OP, i also love windows 7, huge speed boost from vista <3
俺はダメ人間。。。
Horrde
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada302 Posts
January 13 2011 19:25 GMT
#5
I'm glad you like it, because Windows 7 was my idea.
UisTehSux
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States693 Posts
January 13 2011 19:29 GMT
#6
On January 14 2011 04:25 Horrde wrote:
I'm glad you like it, because Windows 7 was my idea.



I can imagine this in a commercial! Lol.

'Y'know, I like motherboards. I should be able to just plug my stuff in without any hassle!'

*Substitute guy with sculpted body in thinking pose*

'This is Windows 7, and it was my idea'
I underestimated that boy. No... it was not the boy I underestimated, it was the Triforce of Courage.
Necosarius
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Sweden4042 Posts
January 13 2011 19:30 GMT
#7
I hate it because it fucks up BW
Raeleigh
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
January 13 2011 19:47 GMT
#8
On January 14 2011 04:25 Horrde wrote:
I'm glad you like it, because Windows 7 was my idea.

/highfive

Wish my computer had Windows 7..
Vista yay...
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you are perfect porcelain.
devil`
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States176 Posts
January 13 2011 19:50 GMT
#9
Is that a 6870 :DDD? and I have the h50 aswell.
http://devilsfeed.info/ My personal Blog. Follow me on twitter @iamdevilrawr
Nuttyguy
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United Kingdom1526 Posts
January 13 2011 19:50 GMT
#10
On January 14 2011 04:29 UisTehSux wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2011 04:25 Horrde wrote:
I'm glad you like it, because Windows 7 was my idea.



I can imagine this in a commercial! Lol.

'Y'know, I like motherboards. I should be able to just plug my stuff in without any hassle!'

*Substitute guy with sculpted body in thinking pose*

'This is Windows 7, and it was my idea'

it IS in a commercial on youtube windows account and its pretty lame tbh.
Shaka_Kon
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada112 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-13 19:57:09
January 13 2011 19:50 GMT
#11
Nono...Win7 was my friend's idea...no wait, its mine!


On January 14 2011 04:30 Necosarius wrote:
I hate it because it fucks up BW


if ur BW freezes, try this

in notepad, type (or just copy paste)

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
C:\"Program Files (x86)"\"Starcraft"\"StarCraft.exe" (note: your sc exe file directory)
start explorer.exe

save file as
extension.bat
run this file then bw
say cheese!...... NOT
buickskylark
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada664 Posts
January 13 2011 19:54 GMT
#12
while we're on the same topic, anyone know a fix for broodwar not allowing me to connect to b.net because it thinks i have a virus? I always have to start BW as an administrator to connect to B.net.
UisTehSux
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States693 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-13 19:57:22
January 13 2011 19:55 GMT
#13
On January 14 2011 04:50 devil` wrote:
Is that a 6870 :DDD? and I have the h50 aswell.


Yes it is indeed an MSI 6870. I love the MSI version because it comes with the MSI afterburner software.

Corsair ftw!
I underestimated that boy. No... it was not the boy I underestimated, it was the Triforce of Courage.
Enki
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2548 Posts
January 13 2011 20:03 GMT
#14
I was using XP for the longest time until my old computer died. My current comp I bought back in march of last year, came with Windows 7, and I fucking love it.
"Practice, practice, practice. And when you're not practicing you should be practicing. It's the only way to get better. The only way." I run the Smix Fanclub!
LazyMacro
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
976 Posts
January 13 2011 22:25 GMT
#15
Wait, so if I have an OEM copy of W7, it's transferrable to a new mobo?
UisTehSux
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States693 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-13 22:35:56
January 13 2011 22:35 GMT
#16
On January 14 2011 07:25 LazyMacro wrote:
Wait, so if I have an OEM copy of W7, it's transferrable to a new mobo?


Maybe. Some of the people on the forums I read said that doing what I did caused BSODs and they had to do clean installs. Not sure if I got lucky like the others or if W7 is just super awesome like that.

And I used the OEM W7 I bought from newegg in my first build which I used to swap mobos.
I underestimated that boy. No... it was not the boy I underestimated, it was the Triforce of Courage.
crazeman
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
664 Posts
January 14 2011 01:17 GMT
#17
On January 14 2011 07:25 LazyMacro wrote:
Wait, so if I have an OEM copy of W7, it's transferrable to a new mobo?


it also depends on what you mean by an OEM copy. If you brought an OEM copy from newegg, you can probably transfer it, but if it was a OEM copy that came with your PC, (IE you brought a pc from dell and it came with windows 7) you can't transfer it to another computer.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
January 14 2011 07:43 GMT
#18
Windows 7 looks good, but is there any way to get rid of cleartype fonts everywhere ? (I know you can for IE). Cleartype fonts give me terrible headaches, I just can't use Windows 7 more than 1 hour (I have to sometimes at work..)

Anyway, that's a nice gift you had !
ॐ
TadH
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1846 Posts
January 14 2011 08:13 GMT
#19
what auto overclocking software are you using, or how did you do it?
UisTehSux
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States693 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-14 13:06:43
January 14 2011 13:06 GMT
#20
On January 14 2011 17:13 TadH wrote:
what auto overclocking software are you using, or how did you do it?


The over clocking software comes with the Asus motherboard. It is their "ASUS Unique Overclocking Utitlity - TurboV EVO" which allowed me to auto OC.

It has the TurboV overclocker
-The Turbo Unlocker which unlocks cores on certain AMD CPUs
-The ASUS TurboV Auto tuning mode (So cool! :D)
-Their 'CPU Level UP"
-And the ASUS Turbo Key which lets you overclock manually by setting certain values to hotkeys and doing it that way.
I underestimated that boy. No... it was not the boy I underestimated, it was the Triforce of Courage.
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