only thing I installed were drivers.. Sata and Ethernet, no monitor or so the issue is definately in windows 7, tried torrents maxing my line (100/100) never a problem really.. but with ssl ALWAYS trouble I rarely use torrents.. usenet is my thing, if I was downloading at 10 MB/s the network would crash almost instantly (SSL) sometimes it would last a couple of minutes, if I then started IE or winamp (Shoutcast), it would crash and not work properly again without restarting the NIC I guess the nForce 15.35 could be at fault, but had some major network-issues with my laptop as well and the nic is an Intel WiFi Link 5300, same symptoms: high-speed ssl breaks connection on my laptop I got both VistaSP2x64 and Win7x64 (7201) when using Vista everything is rocksolid at 300mbit no matter what traffic I use, in Win7 something was wrong lost internet from time to time dont really know if the problem is there still.. ah well Its still in developement so