I have had a reasonably stable system now but am considering a new config and that is to install a ssd drive with Wndows 7 Ultimate, keeping my current drive so I can swap at boot time into what system I need at that time.
This raises several questions.
SSd drive of 128 Gbt (Sata 2 or Sata3?)as Windows operating system possibly Windows 7 or should I wait for W8 which is supposed to be available next year,?
Do you still need to load chipset drivers if so what order, or does Windows now cater for all this.
The currnt Bios being run is FVB a special one devise by UK Gigabyte to help cure teh noisy capacitor problems should I try and upgrade to latest? Is there a latest version ofr this board?
Most of all would I gain anythig for the several hundreds of Pounds outlay?
Current system board & config. Below
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom) Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD3R
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.80 gigahertz Intel Core i7 930
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
8192 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Hyper-threaded (8 total) Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD3R
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. FVB 06/04/2010
Drives Memory Modules c,d
500.11 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
415.02 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
SONY CD-RW CRX320E SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
ST3500418AS [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9VMEQ9GH, rev CC38, SMART Status: Healthy 3584 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 2048 MB
Slot 'A1' is Empty
Slot 'A2' has 2048 MB
Slot 'A3' is Empty
Slot 'A4' has 2048 MB
Slot 'A5' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 257.71 GB 199.38 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 242.40 GB 215.64 GB free