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That doesn`t mean its good. Spiderman 3 was a box office blowout. And the movie wasn`t that great. You can polish a turd, and the average user will love it.

You OCing? Overheating? Too much load on the PSU? RAM issues? run memtestX86

What's your budget in USD? Also, overclocking? Something Solid: I'd go for something like a Q9450 E0 if no/little OCing. Q9550 E0 for OCing. P45 chipset 4GB+ DDR2 640GB Western Digital SE16, RAID reccomended HD4670 for general use. or HD4870 for gaming. HD4350/HD4550 for at minimum great AERO performance and some basic 3D. All HD4000 series offer video acceleration for e.g. 1080p playback. Something Cheap: E8400 E0 or E7400, E7300 P35 chipset. 2GB DDR2 320GB Western Digital SE16 Same GPU reccomendations. More powerful GPU for better gaming.

Check your BIOS settings. What chipset are you using? Find out then get the drivers directly from the manufacturer.

More ram is always better. 8GB is great, and anything over is a dream. For a GPU go for 1GB if you can. There is no point in 256mb or 512mb. 256mb is a joke. I would recommend that for running Vista`s AERO. Games are using more texture data now. Something like a HD4850 1GB is recommended. Followed by the GTX260, GTX260-216, HD4870 1GB, GTX280, and the king: HD4870X2. This is in order of performance, and usually price. The GTX 260 I`ve seen has some discounts recently and it is a better deal than the HD4870 but it is slightly slower, more so with AntiAliasing 4x and above. Quad cores are great. If you can get the Q9550 E0 or the Q9650 E0 they clock really well. Quads are great for multitasking. Like multiple VMs. And some games, new ones do take advantage of quads. Not fully, but you do see a difference. Some need a few tweaks to enable. I wouldn`t buy a prepackaged PC from Dell or similar. Customize it yourself. It costs the same if not cheaper, and you can get higher quality parts. Far more reliable... depends on how hard you push the hardware.

Don`t get so excited. Performance is not that great. But the user interface makes much more sense, and it has a smoother `feel`from the GPU acceleration.

There's alot you can remove and still retain functionality. Tablet PC, Speech Support, Drivers (remove what you don't use), and WinSXS. WinSXS removal will break windows update. Removing these will reduce your install size by at least half. Also, disabling the hibernation file, and reducing swap file reduces space too. I set swap to as low as 1:1 for a system with 4GB or more. Add in some CCleaner to remove junk & temp files and voila!

no. you can't just reinstall aero.

EULAs are not legally enforcable.

Thank you nuhi.

That's allowed. However DO NOT make copies for others. Never mind. I re-read the original post. To the OP: No. Its NOT ok to sell it. Its illegal, first of all. Secondly, its immoral. You are profiting off of someone else's work. Why are you selling a CD with no data on it? You make all of us at MSFN sad.

Why? Once you buy a good sound system, you don't replace it. There's no incremental upgrades available.

Aren't we allowed to make a personal backup copy of media here?

My HD4870 is making my eyes bleed. IQ is too high? Textures at a distance are way too sharp. Can you post a screen of UT2004 if you have it? I'd like to compare. Larrabee is a paper warrior. Let's see a working chip first. Its rumored to support hybrid raytracing. Mix of raster, and some ray here and there.

Ok. So you want something that is pretty fast, and with a low(er) price. If you want to overclock, then get the p45 chipset. Otherwise stick with the p43 chipset. The other difference is that the p45 will support crossfire. I'd reccomend an E8400 for a cpu. Its gotten pretty cheap lately, and if you want to overclock it, it will do well. Otherwise an E7200 or an E7400 will provide about 80% of the performance at a lower price. You can get an E8400 for $170.00 and the E7200 for $120.00 and the E7400 for about $140 when it launches. Your choice of processor depends on whether you want to overclock. Ram, comes last after the chipset, and the cpu have been chosen. 4GB is reccomended along with 64-bit Vista, or XP Pro 64-bit. Videocard. You need one. Plenty of choices depending on what you want to do. The HD4850 is a great performer if you don't need to overclock, and do some pretty good gaming and 3D design... etc. Otherwise the HD4670 and lower for running everyday apps, and Vista. Add in a case, $30.00 DVD burner from Samsung (quiet, short) and a Power Supply if the case doesn't have it and presto. Oh yeah. And forget about Nehalem. WAAAY too expensive. If the CPU price won't kill you, the chipset will, and so will the DDR3 ram. DDR3 prices are at least double DDR2 currently with marginal benefits. Nehalem + DDR3 is something that you should look into in about one year when the tech begins to soar, and prices fall.

Eh. Needs more work. Too heavy on the resources.

Mine cost $180.00 and its designed for overclocking. P5Q-E Most money I spend is on the graphics card. Second in line is the motherboard.

Depend. DO you want bleeding edge performance? Something a little more mainstream, and alot cheaper? Or the bargain bin. You need an average computer that will do everyday tasks.

So I take it you're running Vista on a Pentium II.

Vista measures using private working set. No it is not minimised in the test. The PDF is opened through both apps.

I don't understand. Adobe used to make such a slow, bloated pdf reader. Now version 9.0 actually uses less memory than the tiny SumatraPDF. 15mb for Adobe, 21mb for Sumatra. Both opened the same document. Server 2008 x64 edition. What is going on? Abode has a huge installation footprint. What's in all those files?

The Vista Ultimate EULA is for dual cpu systems and up. A quad is fine since its single socket.

****. I broke the add remove feature in the server manager. Now what? What do I need to keep that?

How do I remove some of the components that vLite removes? The add remove features of the server manager gets broken when I mess with components in vLite. I'd like to reduce the size of the WinXS folder first.... then the rest.

Would there be some way to "integrate" Aero into the install DVD? If that's impossible, what are its dependencies?