Recent content by AuroraMike

I cant' remember the last time I installed a game on my OS drive so that won't be a problem. :) The big thing I'm doing this for is some classic gaming and for my IPSec VPN client back to work. I'm not one of those Vista haters (although I changed the vista UI to look like XP, saves a bit of...

I've been running Vista 64-bit for a few weeks now and yes, I knew how much it hates 16-bit apps so I was running WinXP as a guest OS via VMWare in the interim. However that has its own set of issues and I was thinking about getting another small HD and setting up the system as a dual boot with...

If one were to go strictly by reviews on newegg, not a single mobo out is good, they all suck be it reliability, drivers, performance under vista and all sorts of other issues. I'm still thinking of sticking w/ XP not because I'm anti-Vista but because I'm really not sold on DX10 and that would...

I have a 22" Samsung panel I just picked up so yes, 19x12 will be what I'm playing at. Believe it or not, I'm finally dumping a 21" Viewsonic CRT I've had forever and a year. I just never had a reason to replace it. It's going to be weird not having that 75 lb behemoth on my desk anymore but man...

CPU - Q9650 Memory - 2x 2GB of either Corsair, OCZ or G.Skill (leaning towards OCZ, DDR2 1066 but I'm not against DDR3) Video - debating between a 4870x2 (drivers still scare me) or a 280 Probably doing a RAID 0 on game drive, RAID 1 on the OS drive So I'm getting old. :) I haven't bought...