Computers are a pain in the ass

dblshockpwr wrote:WIn7 Pro? Probably MS's best OS ever imho.....

Did you flash the Motherboard as well Magic? Thats the first thing I do when I get a new box these days..

I'm thinking about starting a new AMD build because I am wanting something with USB 3.0 (5GB a second data transfer) and Esata

And of course a Nice SSD for the booth drive and then get about 6TB set up in Raid 0 for mass storage...

I want the Hexacore CPU though... AMD's is about $250 while Intels is typically overpriced at about $1000...

This is a Windows 7 home premium with the AMD Athlon 635 quad-core 2.9 ...just 4GB RAM (my other one has 8GB)

700GB HD which is fine since I don't use them to save much and with all 4 running I try to burn a disc just to save pictures and I also have always used my Hotmail account to save things for the last 12 years and everything is still there

This seems to be working like it should but I don't use it to mess around much just because if it does freeze and I have to reboot it will screw up my Test for Theory program I run and since each Unit is 12 hours I don't like to reboot and lose hours of time.

But when I get time I will always see what I can do to get this thing working smoothly.

Win7 does have several things I like but I wish they saved a few XP Pro things I still use on my other 2 pc's that I still prefer.

Like Outlook Express and the "my pictures" and "documents" files work better for what I do.

But these 2 HP's with Win7 do have tests for all the components and then the security updates and HP also has a quick link to check for updates that are fast....and free.

I just hope these 2 quads with Win7 will run non-stop doing these Theoretical Physics Computations non-stop 24/7 so they can get plenty of tests run because right now my 2 triple cores running with XP Pro are the #1 and #2 computers on the planet right now doing this Alpha test.

You should see some of the computers these guys are running along with me.

12-core and 8-core computers and lots of quads......and of course hard-core computer and physics geeks.

The 3 physicists I am working with just made a trip from Geneva to Brazil for conferences leaving me to do all the work and help the others when they have problems.

dblshockpwr wrote:Well I happen to have the .iso image for Windows 7 Pro... (the student edition) 64 bit.... let me know if you want a copy..... I can burn you one or maybe dropbox it....... You would just have to come up with a key.... or use the WAT removal tool you can find online and use that. I just can't give MY key out or they will disable it after too many activations... But it's a good clean disk without any of the pre-installed bullshit that manufacturers throw in there.

Interesting

I may need to do something like that with this one (Windows7 Premium X64)

This WAT program looks like a good one too.

http://www.digipassion.com/2010/10/wat-removal-tool-removing-windows-7.html

You ever try this one?

I am still having freeze problems on this one and after all the updates I have done it must be a registry problem.

ColtsKurt wrote:Because you guys are talking so far over my head, I'll go with...

Can't you two nerds talk about something... anything else?

No I would just talk even higher tech and you would go dizzy and pass out

I guess you could talk to me about insurance because I am not an expert there

I have the chaep broad form for all my cars (I payed it yesterday)

$140 twice a year.