I was having the same issue with my new 260GTX 216. I noticed right off working on photos that panning was very slow with tearing all over the place, sluggish window resizing and scrolling and the 180.84 drivers did help but I'm still not seeing any upgraded performance in this very important...
I get 8484 in 3dmark05 and 4682 in 3dmark06.
Not too bad. It's even higher than what Anandtech got on the FX-55/7800GTX 512Mb system. Dual core to the rescue I suppose.
I'm just giving you my impression back when I had identically configured systems on XP and 2003. It did run better. The GUI was faster and apps loaded quicker with fewer crashes. (same hardware).
I never said it didn't have the same code but that's not a requisite for it to run better.
Google for "windows 2003 workstation" and you'll get a lot of hits about what you want to know.
I've been using 2003 on my dev box for a while which I also now use as my main gaming rig. I did do performance testing on it when I had my 3.2Ghz northwood box and there was essentially zero...
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