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Post by Robin Hood on Jan 4, 2009 0:55:43 GMT -6
I just added some eye candy to my main PC, figured I would share some photos. BTW, the specs are: Intel Q9550 Quad core overclocked to 3.6 GHz on AIR!!! ASUS P5Q Deluxe Motherboard 8 GB of Corsair Dominator Memory two Sapphire ATI HD4870's set up in Crossfire Creative X-Fi Extreme Sound Card two Seagate 500GB 7200.11 set up in a RAID 0 (these are my boot drives) one Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11 (this is my storage drive) Xion 1000w Power Supply LG Blu-Ray DVD burner/player     |
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Jan 4, 2009 1:34:47 GMT -6
8 GB of Corsair Dominator Memory Why?? Not even Vista can utilize that much memory, which maxes out at 4GB, including Video memory, which means your usable on-board memory is even less than that. What am I missing here??  Nevertheless, *SWEET* machine!! |
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Post by Chicago Jake on Jan 4, 2009 1:42:26 GMT -6
I'm guessing it is not a Windows machine, but utilizes some other OS that can access much more memory.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jan 4, 2009 2:00:23 GMT -6
Boy this sure makes my old Radio Shack computer of the 80's look like crap.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sweet machine dude.
Joe
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Post by Robin Hood on Jan 4, 2009 2:47:17 GMT -6
Actually Vista 64bit can access 128GB of RAM
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Post by Robin Hood on Jan 4, 2009 2:53:09 GMT -6
I run Vista 64 bit and haven't looked back once, I absolutely LOVE Vista. If you want to utilize your machine to the max, Vista is the way to go.
Any more if someone wants a new machine I recommend Vista 64 bit over XP, the hardware has finally caught up with it and if you install XP you are actually holding your machine back.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 4, 2009 6:39:10 GMT -6
I run Vista 64 bit and haven't looked back once, I absolutely LOVE Vista. If you want to utilize your machine to the max, Vista is the way to go. Any more if someone wants a new machine I recommend Vista 64 bit over XP, the hardware has finally caught up with it and if you install XP you are actually holding your machine back.Normally I defer to your expertise on these things, but on this I would have to argue that this is an unqualified "DEPENDS"... depends on what youre doing. For raw scientific number crunching, on my current machine, I get the best performance out of Win2000. |
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Post by Robin Hood on Jan 4, 2009 10:48:27 GMT -6
I run Vista 64 bit and haven't looked back once, I absolutely LOVE Vista. If you want to utilize your machine to the max, Vista is the way to go. Any more if someone wants a new machine I recommend Vista 64 bit over XP, the hardware has finally caught up with it and if you install XP you are actually holding your machine back.Normally I defer to your expertise on these things, but on this I would have to argue that this is an unqualified "DEPENDS"... depends on what youre doing. For raw scientific number crunching, on my current machine, I get the best performance out of Win2000. I will give you that, for purely crunching numbers, a small linux 64 bit distro would be the absolute best. Win 2000 and 98 are very minimal for todays hardware. I actually have a machine that does SETI at Home and Protein Folding, it runs a Linux distro called "Damn Small Linux".....ROFL It has no GUI, it is all command line. |
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Post by Robin Hood on Jan 4, 2009 11:03:10 GMT -6
I want to rephrase what I said about Vista 64, if you just want to install something and have it work and get some cool features along the way, Vista is the way to go.
Now if you don't care about playing games and having your machine compatible with just about everything out there, go Linux.
The Linux folks have had a 64bit Kernel for a LONG LONG time. They are far more adept at making full use of all the system resources.
I will say this about my computers in my house, there is one Vista machine, my main PC. There is one XP machine, my wifes computer. The two machines that I use for TV/News and general web browsing are both Linux machines, my servers are both Linux, and the testing machine on my workbench is a dual boot Linux/XP machine.
Within 3-5 years I fully expect Linux to be another mainstream operating system and will be competing with Microsoft head on. I hope to see companies like Adobe porting software for use on Linux machines.
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Post by Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III on Jan 4, 2009 12:31:07 GMT -6
I want to rephrase what I said about Vista 64, if you just want to install something and have it work and get some cool features along the way, Vista is the way to go. I don't have the 64 bit version of Vista, but the 32 bit Vista is a piece of crap. That's why most computer makers provide the option of "downgrading" to XP when you buy a new computer TODAY. The 32 bit version cannot access more than 4 GB of RAM including that RAM on the motherboard AND the RAM on the Video Card. If you buy 4 GB of RAM and have 1.2 GB in a video card, your usable RAM on the motherboard is only 2.8 GB . . . the rest is WASTED and not used. Many folks buying VISTA and opting for the 4 GB of RAM on the motherboard do not understand this. There was some reason I didn't get the 64 bit version, which I think was simply most programs at the time wouldn't take advantage of it . . . so why get it? Hardware support in Vista was also a step backward from XP for some bizarre reason. The problem with Windows is it's based on 25 year old technology and there is simply no way to "upgrade" it and get rid of the problems without simply completely overhauling the OS. That's why you could be correct about Linux unless someone at Microsoft get's the guts to nuke Windows. ..............Bob |
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Post by Robin Hood on Jan 4, 2009 15:02:11 GMT -6
Bob, to me there is no sense in running Vista if you aren't going to run the 64 bit version, it just don't make sense. As far as hardware support, that isn't Microsoft's fault, that falls to the hardware manufacturers. As far as software, yes alot of programs aren't written in 64 bit code yet, however I have yet to run into anything 32 bit that wouldn't run on 64 bit. Now with 64 bit becoming "mainstream", there are lots of programs being written for it including games and productivity software. Windows 7, the next generation of windows will not have a 32 bit option, from what I have seen, Windows 7 is going to be pretty nice. Windows has FINALLY listened to the users on what we want, Windows 7 will allow us to install or not install the features we actually want our operating system to have.....sadly a feature that Linux has had for years.
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