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    Win 7 on XPS Gen2

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by hovercraftdriver, May 19, 2009.

  1. hovercraftdriver

    hovercraftdriver Notebook Deity

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    Installed Win 7 RC on my Gen 2 a few nights ago after being happy with my install on HP HDX Dragon. Clean install was flawless, except for missing audio device driver, which I got from Dell, and 7800 GTX driver, so I used Dox's latest 185.85 from LV2Go.

    Lappie is 4 years old this month, and let me tell you, Win7 blows XP out of the water, at least on this rig. Current hardware:

    2 Ghz Pentium M (original)
    2 Gigs 533 ram (512 original)
    Atheros Wireless AR5006 (Intel 2915 original)
    7800 GTX (6800 Ultra original)
    80 gig 5400 rpm hard drive

    Anyway, just thought I would say I was pleasantly surprised, in case others want to try to use Win 7 on an older system. Cheers.
     
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    mar_tin1 Notebook Consultant

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    Atheros Wireless AR5006 : just wondering , did u buy that for wifi hacking !
     
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    Yeah, right. Not sure where that came from. Just have a big house.

    It does have amazing range though. I had it coupled with a WRT54GX for some time before I bricked the router with bad firmware. By far the best range of any rigs I have ever owned when used together. We have a park in our neighborhood, 8 houses down from mine, and I still had about 60% signal strength while watching my younguns. Can't even connect with my Intel 4965 and WRT610N at that range. But I think it had to do as much with the router as it did the card.
     
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