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Definitely Vista's boot time defrag, and I see you let it complete as well. It's supposed to be a one time defrag. I noticed your bootloader as well. I really don't know, it could be the overclocking did something. For awhile I had CHDSK repeatedly running upon startup, but after I manually...

Trip back in time? Was uploaded in 2006, but considering the hardware it is definitely from 2005! FX-60, 7800's in SLI, WD Raptor, Swiftech Storm block and unknown pump from Germany... 3dmark05 score of 12,739. My current rig can score that in 3dmark06. Gotta love the progress of...

As I recall my own kit of Ballistix PC2-8500 would not boot on my P35-DQ6. I had to use my other RAM to boot into the BIOS and first change the RAM voltages before the system would even POST with Ballistix installed... all of my Gigabyte boards are that way though.

Because you can't buy Apple motherboards? Same reason Apple doesn't allow OS X to be run on computers that are not Apple's.

Call me selfish, but I'm more hoping that is the case of DDR3! :D Even if $200 was considered a great price for DDR2 at the start of 2007, it just seems wrong now when everyone points out 8GB of DDR2 can be had for 2GB of DDR3.

What I found scary, was the report I saw that companies were slapping 1GB of ram onto 8500GT cards to try and clear out old stock for upcoming 9-series versions, and actually selling them very well. The things that boggle the mind...

Oops! :o

Lovely snow... not a bad car either. :D

In Opera you can click a button for a new tab, or double-click anywhere on the tab area, or hold down the shift key while clicking a link. CTRL+shift will even open the tab silently in the background. Opera works on Mac OS X, Windows, whatever... I'll give credit to Safari that Safari and...

I know that in-place upgrades from XP to Vista are a big mistake, things were so bad at first with the driver soup that resulted from it that some users found themselves with useless machines and had to install from a clean slate. All of my installs were clean installs and kept updated. Vista...

Opera all the way for me. Definitely took some work to get used to the interface, but it was extremely customizable once I got past the initial adjusting phase... Faster and works on more sites than IE, and none of the plug-in hell that Firefox requires for the same functionality. I don't...

Rob, definitely lame . ;) Hard details on Larrabee are still scarce, the chip won't be seen until 2010 at least. Photo on this page probably best explains it http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080318-what-chips-may-comeintel-lifts-curtain-on-upcoming-cpus.html

Regardless at $6,000 a drive....That is the price of an almost-new car. A year from now half the price of an almost-new car is still half the price of an almost-new car! :p

Think Larabee this way... each core is a highly advanced shader engine. As Nvidia shaders verses ATI shaders have pointed out, not all shaders are created equal... Don't need overly fancy code to use an army of IA cores as fully programable shaders, however I just couldn't figure out how...

Both of those points are very true. But when you try three installations of Vista and things go from kosher to crappy with all three, it's not a peculiarity with the specific install. Especially when using very mainstream hardware. Some of those game hotpatches actually broke more than they...

So is it doing a CHKDSK or a defrag?? Only other thing I can think of is if you have a RAID array set up?

I can't see this costing less than a 3870X2, otherwise I'd more than completely agree with ya Sbrehm! Production costs are very high, and (assuming it launches) since it will be such a limited production run those costs are going to stay very high. Of course if AMD cuts prices any more, I...

Anyone that's been keeping up with Intel's Larabee will know this to be true! Of course Larabee only uses basic IA cores, but it'll be using an army of them...

Let us know when you start overclocking it! I'll bring the marshmellows so we can roast them off the back vent of the card... :D

Here was another article, came out a bit before that one that I thought was a really good read: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9070119 The second half of the third page gives a believable reason as to why MS may still extend XP support for...