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Does anyone know if all versions of the 64-bit Windows 7 upgrade retail products : Home Premium, Business, Ultimate; will accept Dell's Vista 64-bit Home Premium recovery DVD as proof-of-license verification when doing a fresh install of Windows 7?
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jjon90, The thermal management issue is one of the major drawbacks that has prevented me from building a high-end PC. While the 435MT is a very powerful box, its footprint (case size) does not lend itself towards supporting a bigger power supply, high-end graphics card or over-clocking the processor... heat, heat, heat = instability This is not a "gaming" PC, although I'm not a gamer I have a PS3; which I recommend to anyone in the market for a gaming console/Blu ray disc player. About
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I'll ask the obvious (?), which is: did you uninstall the drivers for the old video card, reboot the PC and then shut it down before installing the new graphics card?
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IMO if Dell perceives there is a market for i7 business platforms, they will build them. Given the global recession, many technology manufacturers are reluctant to risk over extending themselves. I'm not sure where things stand with support for business Vista versus XP Pro desktops, but it seems Corporate America is reluctant to spring the Vista business operating system on its technically challenged employees.
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Generally speaking it is only necessary to install the chipset drivers after doing a fresh install of a Microsoft operating system once the latest service pack has been applied (if available). Depending on the age of the hardware platform and the maturity level of the OS, quite often the chipset drivers required for a PC will already be bundled into the operating system. After installing the OS go to start, control panel, system, hardware, device manager and under the system devices entry you will
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In terms of any potential buyers remorse I suppose this depends on what your expectations are. In my case a mini-tower PC, which the 435MT is, suits my needs because I only wanted to add one additional internal HDD to support RAID 0 & double the mass-storage with. There is also room for another internal optical drive, which is nice for the BD option. Although w/HDCP content restrictions I'm not sure what resolution is supported by the ATI Radeon 3450 graphics card. From a bottom line perspective