Quote Originally Posted by boxblizzard View Post
can anyone speak from experience regarding switching from windows xp to vista 64? or windows 7. any marginal improvements? obviously the increased amount of ram utilized
Outside of the Memory increase (Performance) for 64 Bit system, You will find very little performance increase from Vista Unless you turn a ton of Services off.

Windows 7 Is a good program, (and is not at End of life meaning that you will get upgrades and improvements as time goes forward, 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.