Does Windows 7 really give a performance boost over Windows Vista?

[jstanthr]

i noticed a substantial increase in speed and performance with windows 7 over vista and xp even. after i made a few changes, the first thing you should do is turn all the aero stuff off!!! go to personalize, then advanced and uncheck everything, that gave me around 1500 more on my 3dvantage score and bumped my fps up quite a bit with 5 clients running. and also turning off the before mentioned indexing and stuff. i use a program taht was linked in the forums some time ago for setting up symlinks within the right click context menu, it works flawlessly witn win7. i am extremely pleased with what ms has done, seems they have gotten it right this time, lets just hope they don't mess it up with a service pack or update. and the performance with multi-gpu's in sli and not, is astonishingly better as well, running a monitor per gpu, non sli is ridiculously fast now, nomore cross rendering, it works as intended now, at least on my setup.

[Multibocks]

what is crossrendering? Do ATI cards have it as well?

[Ualaa]

With InnerSpace, I don't need to use Symbolic Links or Junction Points, as the config file is virtualized for each toon. Different settings per account, is about the only boost from linking to the same folder. Referencing a file several times isn't any faster then just using that file each time. The program worked great for me too; it's found here: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinks...kshellext.html

I've got a Sapphire 4870 X2, and run each of the wow's with shadows all the way down. Aside from the event where you needed to catch the torches, by standing in the shadow of them... shadows don't do much in wow, aside from kill frames per second. Pretty much, slaves have every setting down. And the master toon has maxed view distance and spell effects.

[Lost Ninja]

Windows 7 is the best thing that happened since Win 3.11

Win 98 OSr2 was far superior to 3.11... hell DOS 6.22 was superior to 3.11.

[Aragent]

As stated befor in many of the Windows 7 Posts,

You will find very little performance increase from Vista Unless you turn a ton of Services off.

Windows 7 Is a good program, theres is little actual performance increase from Vista to windows 7 however there is a Perceived Increase in performance. this is caused by how windows 7 handles Hard drive access and Video, where as the actual performance is not increased much it does created a smoother and less choppy experience giving a cleaner and smoother experience.

Windows 7 also handles SDD's better and duo video cards.
SO I would recommend going with a windows 7 64