I continue to have crashing problems with the latest versions, even of Firestorm. Never had this before, even with my old Athlon quad.
I run resource and task monitors and see phys mem below 20 pct usage, cpu load below 20pct, gpu load below 50 and lower temps and fan speeds than other apps like blue mars, win7 scores my system at 7+ out of 7.9 except for the hd, which is always the bottleneck. sometimes disk use spikes but not consistent. I have shut down several background programs after consulting task manager. I have updated drivers, windows and sl, consulted forums, even cleaned components in my box.
And a full system freeze up still ends every single SL session, usually in less than 10 minutes.
Intel i7 2600k, 8gb ram, radeon 5770 1gb,, win7 64