Recent content by severian64

Hi, I just got a brand new HP laptop from my company and i was shocked to see the memory utilization under Task Manager. Without running any apps, the OS was already burdened by tons of processes running in the background eating up RAM. I found that 5 processes eating up 68 MB in total...

Why are you assuming that i hate American or its allies? Which part of my post is anti-american?

I've been watching this conflict from day 1 and its painfully obvious that Israel wants to kills Lebanon's tourism industry. Israel destoryed all the infrastructure that the Lebanon rebuilt after the civil war. What was the point of attacking the airports, bridges, ports, banks, feul depots...

I have an OC'ed Opteron 165 and i don't feel any reason to spend $500 to jump ship for Conroe. The marginal performance improvements are simply not worth it. Unless you have money to throw away, Opteron and X2 users should be jumping ship at all.

Thanks for the information. Even though i have a MSDN universal account, i have never used my MSDN account keys. I just don't feel comfortable providing all the informationr required.

I work for a large multinational thats buys computers from Dell. These machines come preloaded with XP but our tech support installs the standard corporate image on all of them. Apparently, we have some sort of large volume licensing deal with MS. I was wondering if i can take the unused...

These 14.3% people who are switching from A64/opyt need a lesson in Upgrade Economics 101. It doesnt make any sense to upgrade to conroe over the marginal perfomance increases unless you have money to burn. Its been my experience that AMD "platform" is less expensive in terms of upgrades...

Thanks for your response. I have Creative as well and i guess i will wait until Creative gets it act together.

Hi, I just wanted to find out how many of you are going 64 versus 32. If you are going 64 then are you running in driver support issues / software compatibility or was it smooth sailing? Thanks, Severian64