Actually Justin let me get ahold of my buddy. he SWEARS by windows xp and im pretty sure still runs it on a media computer of his...which i know for sure is an HP cause i helped him put it together. let me see if his is home or pro and i'll get back to you.
thanks for the help everyone. ive got my new SSD and windows 7 all loaded up and ready to go. The tower and liquid cooling setup gets here next week. It should be a beast