Yes, windows 7 is worth it just for being windows 7 lol but in all seriousness you would defiantly notice a peformance increase once you start using the modded driver due to their vast superiority over the vanilla drivers from intel. However it should be noted that some games refuse to run correctly under windows 7 and you may get bad performance in these games (sorry, I can't remember what ones they were). Also due to compatibility issues some older games may not work properly on windows 7but there are heaps of guides out there to help you get a specific game working. All in all though windows 7 is a superiour OS in nearly all ways to Windows XP and the modded drivers are superiour in every way to the originals from intel (somewhere in the 300% to 400% range), it would we a wise choice, I swapped from Xp to 7 and I loved it and only thing I regret is forgeting to write down all my program names to find later lol.
THEfog On 03/03/2010 6:58 AM, "blackrabite" <[email protected]> wrote: Hey there! First off, I really appreciate the work that's going into making these chipsets viable for gaming. Thanks so much! Anywho, looking around other posts, it seems as though there aren't any modded 965 drivers for Windows XP due to legal issues. In your opinion, would I be better off with the latest Intel drivers and using XP, or would I see better gaming performance if I switched to Windows 7 and used the modded drivers? Can I still use this "addreg" settings tweaker for various games even without custom drivers? I'm running a Core 2 Duo T5270 @ 1.40 Ghz w/ 2.00 Gb of RAM, and I'm very prudent about which processes and services I allow Windows to run. I'm not concerned that Windows 7 would perform less optimally due to its requirements as an OS, I'm just curious if installing a brand new OS over what I have now would be worth it for the modded drivers. Thanks so much for your help! -- INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS -- INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
