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Alright, I have two weeks to RMA and replace the entire rig, if I can't figure it out by then, I'll just replace everything for teh heck of it... just in case :P Specs: Some generic mobo (problem in it of itself) Core 2 quad Q6600 3 gigs pc5300 DDR2 500 GB Deskstar...

I'm actually having this exact problem. Even telling vista to shut down explicitly doesn't power down anything but my video card and hard drive. I just assembled this, so i was thinking hardware.. but it shuts down fine out of bios and knoppix.

if you have a licence for vista, can't you choose EITHER 32 ro 64 bit whenever? I don't think it's a seperate key, just get an x64 disk. Feel free to correct me, I'l dig around microsoft licence agreements in the meantime.

Well, it's as simple as: Not everyone needs a $100 - $1000 proc. If all someone does is read email, blogs, and PDFs, surf the internet, and watch youtube, a dual core of any kind will pull you through, It may not make much sense on a small scale, but think of maybe schools or recreatin centres...

Oh lawd

Well, with some monitors now running with very low responce time, I'd be surprised to have any problems with image distortion. If you had probelms with LCDs 2 years ago, understandable, but the technology has changed quite a bit in recent years, so I'd give them another try. Your CRTs only have...

wait for LED grid backlighting (with the turn-an-LED-off technology) or OLCD, then you'll get true black, for now, CRTs still work... right?

I'd say check your power supply, make sure there's enough juice to go around? other than that, I havn't seen any screens of task manager. AND there has been a slight problem with rebranding certain cpu's to look like they have more active cores than they do, I saw a story in maximum pc, but I'm...

I find it funny that he would get these cards, know what they are, and not know how to use a damn camera. Also: why would he tear the heatsink off it first thing out of the box? o well...

3850s!?! I'm mad now, just got my HD2600pro from saphire :(

Persumably you'd be able to run it IN VMWARE or other virtual hardware apps, but wouldn't bank on having VMWARE installed onto home server. were you able to install any apps in home server? if so, look at the installers, if they are made for home server, and not xp/vista I wouldn't get any hopes up.

Yeah, it wont last too long, I'm slowly overclocking until it dies, taking incremental benchmarks. lol artifacts

oversimplification indeed :D it makes the chip much cooler too, and gives room for more transistors i believe. It also makes Intel release old 45 disks (for music) with ads about the chip ^.^

I like to think of it as making it more efficient :)

That compy of yours is not pathetic, in it's day it rawred with the best of um!

I cant get HTML on :(

good point, and there are also power saving advantages, heat, room, freed up pci slots, and it'll even be less expensive.

if you're only planning on overclocking a little bit, the stock Intel cooler will actually do a good job, but I guess a little OC isn't very [H]ard|core :D but you won't need anything crazy unless you're really adulterating the core voltages

yeah, I'd certainly go for the single faster card, especially with the vista / any 64bit windows SLI issues. a single card is more maneuverable.

So what about shader model 5.2b?

So I was fooling around with an old BFG 6600GT agp, and I broke off an odd little box thing. I'd do the research and find out what it was, but it seems moot. Out of curiosity, I popped it into a computer and it worked perfectly. as I type it is completing a 48 hour stability test with a program...

lol, sorry. I used to deal with car audio, they didn't know much about computers :P

You won't get a improvment in WoW, your LCD monitor is probaly forcing WoW to default to a 60HZ refresh rate, ergo, 60 FPS. You will notice however, that it'll never lag where it may have used to. I'm unsure as to what you mean by "3 GHZ" ram, but I guarantee that it being generic is a major...

Well, one might want to be on the side on caution. I've had friends that put portable hard drives on top of logitec SW and plugged them in to find their partition shrink. The metal case SHOULD provide protection, but id suggest putting to tower as far from the SW as you would a CRT monitor.