General
Using a Lenovo IdeaCenter Q180 Nettop with Windows 8 Pro x64 and 4GB RAM.

Graphics Card
Lenovo discribes a HD 6540A

AMD Catalyst Driver Version, and Driver History
- 13.1

Operating System
- Windows 8 Pro x64

Issue Details
I am using this Nettop as HTPC. I run this machine with Windows 7 Pro x64 very well. As HTPC-Software is XBMC used.
Since I made a clean install of Windows 8 Pro x64 I noticed that the performance is drastically less than I experienced with Windows 7. Especially XBMC works less performant and playing 1080p movies works but is not as fluid as you would describe as very good or perfect. The sound cracks sometimes for milliseconds and in general the playback is slightly choppy.

Motherboard or System Make & Model
- Lenovo IdeaCenter Q180

Power Supply
- Standard from vendor

Display Device(s) and Connection(s) Used
- Philips HDTV via HDMI

Applications and Games
- XBMC
- Video 1080p playback in general

CPU Details
- Intel Atom D2700 @ 2 Ghz

Motherboard BIOS Version
- n/a

System Memory Type & Amount
- 4 GB @ 1333 Mhz

Additional Hardware
- none

Additional Details
- The OS is a very fresh, absolute clean installation and only a few days old