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# [7 + 7](https://blog.quasar.ai/2009/05/12/7-7)

 Written by [user](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/user) | 12 May 2009

While still a bit jetlagged, I managed to find the time to setup my new box, a Core i7 running Windows 7 64-bit. A 7/7 box, which in itself is pretty neat.

What is even better is what happens to it when you attach 12 GiB of RAM, a 120 GiB SSD and 3 320 GiB SATA disks in RAID-5 to it:

For your information, this video runs at normal speed. This is how awesome this workstation is.

Windows 7 looks **very** promising. It's Vista running without a handbreak. For those of you who cannot wait and don't want to use a release candidate, you can set up a very fast Windows workstation with [Windows Server 2008](http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/).

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