Well I know Civ 5 has some problems with less than 4GB of RAM.....I'm thinking I should've installed x64 Win7 more often due to that. Plus more x64 Win7 drivers are available now.
I'm more in the Velociraptor camp, over SSD, when it comes to main HDs. How ever I've learnt the hard way that a 64GB v'raptor is too small for a incorrectly configured disk-spanning Win7 install. Something I've still yet to fix as I've got a bagged larger v'rap drive which has been sitting atop my case for some months now. Also only having five out of six functional SATA ports don't help things.
I've also almost gone back to an all Pioneer optical drive setup too, by adding in a BDR-206, had to add in a 6GB/s sata card while I was at it so I could use it. Till I looked at it closely I'd thought it was only a DVD-RW/Blu-ray reader not the full gamete of current optical disk formats that it is. Yet I still use a DVD-106 for outta region discs, RPC-1 & vlc for the win.
If you want to run a bunch of Win XP native programs, you're best off using Win7 Pro as it has a XP VM built in, and is more VM friendly. Win 7 Home Premium doesn't have that capability outta the box, even then your going to be using Windows Anytime Upgrade to get to the level you need.
I'm more in the Velociraptor camp, over SSD, when it comes to main HDs. How ever I've learnt the hard way that a 64GB v'raptor is too small for a incorrectly configured disk-spanning Win7 install. Something I've still yet to fix as I've got a bagged larger v'rap drive which has been sitting atop my case for some months now. Also only having five out of six functional SATA ports don't help things.
I've also almost gone back to an all Pioneer optical drive setup too, by adding in a BDR-206, had to add in a 6GB/s sata card while I was at it so I could use it. Till I looked at it closely I'd thought it was only a DVD-RW/Blu-ray reader not the full gamete of current optical disk formats that it is. Yet I still use a DVD-106 for outta region discs, RPC-1 & vlc for the win.
If you want to run a bunch of Win XP native programs, you're best off using Win7 Pro as it has a XP VM built in, and is more VM friendly. Win 7 Home Premium doesn't have that capability outta the box, even then your going to be using Windows Anytime Upgrade to get to the level you need.