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I just looked on the same site. They now have the Q6600 in stock Q6600 2.4GHz 1066 FSB 8MB cache retail G0 stepping £149 given that it's to replace my existing E6600 with aftermarket fan, surely I should go for the Q6700 OEM?

I'm trying to work out of the hyperthreading on the i7 is going to make a big difference to me. I run 8 VMWare sessions simultaneously, mostly idle, but it's possible up to three could be doing hard-core processing at any given time. This is on top of usual desktop applications. Will it...

You don't sign an NDA when you order from a hardware site!

The other issue is it's possibly worth simply buying the RAM and skipping the CPU upgrade. If I did this, is a dual to quad core on an existing install a sensible swap, or is it necessary/highly recommended to reinstall Windows?

My Spinpoint F1s score 1042 IO/s, the Caviar Black 1136. When I go 64 bit, the 200GB (which probably gets about 500 IO/s) will be junked, and I probably will go back to RAID 1 for the F1s. In the meantime I've switched my pagefile to the Spinpoint - the VMs are already alll there. I...

My OS/app drive is the old 200GB SATA drive. All my data is on the 1TB drives, which are quite new, and I guess (haven't checked) benchmarks, perform very similarly to any other 1TB drive. I originally had WD 400GB Raid Edition drives (RAID1), but they failed every six weeks or so, and after...

TBH it's slow with four or five. And they are most of the time sitting idle.

Yeah that's what I meant. I basically have four options: 1: wait, and buy new mboard, i7, and RAM, then go 64 bit 2. buy 4 * 2GB RAM and go 64 bit now 3: buy Core 2 Duo Q-series and 4 * 2GB RAM and go 64 bit now 4. do option 2 now, see if I am happy with the performance, and if not I...

As per the title, I have a PC with: ATI X1650 Pro Maxtor 6Y200M0 200GB hard drive (fairly old 7200 rpm SATA hd) 2 * Samsung HD103UJ 1 TB hard drives Pioneer DVD-Rom Creative X-Fi soundcard (Gamer?) 4GB of RAM Asus P5B-E Plus motherboard Core 2 Duo E6600 running at stock with...