**Official DFI LanParty UT 790FX-M2R Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[nanohead]

Wow thats cool Hows about some advice on Vista in general? Is there still the Issue with it consuming a large portion of HDD space for what ever reason?

I've been lurking here for a while. Just changed out my Asus MVP for the DFI M2R after the Asus spontaneously combusted and burnt both itself and one of the 3870s I had.

Anyway, Vista is pretty cool. I just built up a new 780G machine with it (my daily desktop), also brought the DFI 790FX up on 64 bit initially as well (my gamer). 32 bit for me for now. I may move the gamer back to 64 bit, but there are still a touch too many glitchy things with 64 bit that I found. I was running 64 bit on the Asus, and brought it up first with the DFI. It is definitely STABLE like a rock, but...big but, there are still some driver issues here and there for me at least. 64 bit has many things that run in kernel mode that disagree with certain drivers (like my sound card for one!), and also disagreed with 3 way Crossfire initially. I'm sure it will iron itself out over time, and I will definitely go back to 64 bit for the gamer!

32 Bit didn't have those issues.

As far as Vista goes, I kinda like it. I shut off 50% of the dopey services they have in there, and changed lots of the user interface stuff, and now its definitely livable, and pretty snappy. I do like Aero quite a bit too.

blackviper.com has a nice list of services that can go in the trash heap, I used his list as somewhat of a reference, but made some other changes too.

I have a hardware firewall, so I killed EVERY SINGLE dopey security service that microsoft jammed in there. Way too many. UAC, defender, security center, firewall, security alerts, crypto, key management, all the IPV6 crapola, etc etc. I took back nearly 400MB of memory when I was done killing services, and it ran better too.

Thing runs great now. Very stable.