New Hotrod Box
I'd been running my box for around 4 years, decent rig. It's a dual core amd64 with 8 Gig of RAM. I've been itching for the last year or so to build a new box with the Intel i7 but just couldn't justify it. Well I was chatting with my Niece and she's going back to school and her laptop was on it's last legs, cha ching! Found my excuse! So I built this screamer for myself and shipping my old rig to her --
Shuttle small form factor box
Intel i7 Hex core (yep, 6 cores)
16 Gig RAM
SSD drive (I have a NAS so I mount my data via NFS)
Anyway I haven't run Windows for a number of years other than testing in VMWare. I've been Linux on my Desktops and Lappy's for at least 5 years on, but check this out. I loaded up Win 7 in my VMWare, sliced off 2 cores for it and 5 Gig of RAM.
Damn, look at the Win 7 performance ratings!!!!
Last edited by Pagan; 09-21-2010 at 12:30 AM.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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