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    Vista only recognizes 1 of my CPUs

    Ahh not an option for me, why would I want that? I'm using it as a home PC, with media center etc...thanks for the great input however!!
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    Vista only recognizes 1 of my CPUs

    I have had my 2 actual Xeon 2.4ghz CPUs installed for a while now, working fine in XP, but when I upgraded to Vista recently, I'm having an issue. The device manager see's 2 CPUs (or 4 if I have hyperthreading turned on), but task manager and the Windows Experience Index and even msconfig...
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    AMD X2 4200+, only 1 core is running?

    I'm having a very similar issue, but I have 2 actual CPUs installed. They are Xeon 2.4ghz CPU's, which actually show up in the Device Manager as 2 CPUs (I turned Hyper threading off for now in the BIOS). So Device Manager shows 2 CPUs Task Manager and the Windows Experience Index say I have...
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    Video Card Upgrade Questions

    Its one of the first ones that came out, not the new ones that are super sweet looking, but the original one, silver, not sure all the model info, I'll have to take a look at it.
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    Video Card Upgrade Questions

    I guess you are right, I'm going to double check my friends specs on his XPS machine and see how it performs just to see, maybe I'm dreaming it up, that scrolled so smoothly?
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    Video Card Upgrade Questions

    You say you experience the same thing, have you read about others as well? I also think it has to do with the # of albums I have in my collection, I'm approaching 150GB of music, so there is a lot to load up in memory when you open WMP11 and go to album view, or artists view etc...1956 Albums...
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    Video Card Upgrade Questions

    I guess none then, the Qurado FX 1000 has never given me any other issues. I just was comparing my performance to a friend of mines, who has a Dell XPS machine and I don't recall seeing the lag issues, I thought his scroll went pretty smoothly. I myself have a decent machine: Dell PWS650...
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    Video Card Upgrade Questions

    I'm wanting to upgrade my current card, which is a Quadro FX 1000. My main concern is the new Windows Media Player 11, when scrolling while viewing the album art, it seems to be a bit laggy at first, rendering the art slow, then when its "cached" it is fast, but not a smooth scroll. Do you...