Installing Windows 7
Installing Windows 7 was easy and it just the same as installing it on any machine. Once it has finished installing there will be a number of drivers missing, but don’t worry, the CD that comes in the box contains all the drivers you need.
In fact, when you run the CD, you see a list of drivers that need to be installed, and also a “One Click Setup” option which does them all, although you do need to install the AMD Chipset Driver first (but it tells you that).
Then its just a case of installing all the other drivers using the One Click Setup.
Performance Tests
Here is what Windows 7 shows:
Ignore the memory and hard disk scores, the lowest score is 3.7 for the processor.
Running up CPU-Z show the following information:
Using PassMark to run various tests yielded the following results:
Great review, thanks. Do you have time to install XBMC for Windows ? I would like to read if the screens move fluidly and your comments on streaming or else what about Media Center running full screen, is it quick and fluid ?
Hi John
Unfortunately its all boxed up now. But Media Center worked without any problem and I was very happy with the results.
Andrew