When Penryn hits, how low will they go? First ATI hasn't much to offer, apparently PAN Flashed when Oil was Thin & its DRY Market now, Intel being Only Name,everywhere you look.
Who would think Core 2 Duo for $80, Server is more stable & less Workstation mainboards exist for NT6. As well as Vista Ultimates' trouble, mostly unstated, if it works great, yet So FEW, for such power, its really NOT Processor problem at present, its MAINBAORD weakness. VistaUltimate needs losely configured lower class processorsmainboards to fully function, yet Server 2008 is much tighter, so I believe Quad is going to PENRYN in style with proper Software & Mainboard.
Putting Server 2008 on C: boot, active; might bring Vista Ultimate into fray with some real guts to push, yet remain stable & complete on second partition.
Say penryn Quad from $450 to $1,100, its worth it if you have Mainboard thats' extra super certified. Mega Certified might be better, from Mind of: thomasxstewart.
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HYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.