jchoft

Many good reasons: heat sinks, fans, layout, production technology, and more i guess. But in this case bigger is better It's been at least 6 years since I owned a workstation (for game purposes), even my laptop is running on its 3rd or so year. My memory of installing graphix cards in a self built pc dates back to riva TnT, or was there one before that as well... i believe it was, the name eludes me. Since then there have been a number of ati/nvidia cards, but this gtx 260 is so much bigger (and more powerfull) than any card i've had before; The weight of it surprised me. I made sure to pick hardware wich would do the gtx 260 right. Can't have it running idle, no bottle necks (proof of speed between the ears?). I'll be exploring the CUDA part of the nvidia card soon. Love to have some cpu/memory intensive task runnning on that card. And for the wang; It's a known fact that meter/second is the measure of choice, not meters.

Hi, I've used nLite to slipstream SP3 into my original XP cd and tested the unattended installation with VMware, using VMX Builder to create the vmx machine (the free alternative from the unattended guide). Also added IE7 and cumulative updates. From the default new VM in VMX builder i removed floppy, added a CD/DVD, network (with NAT) and a HD. So far so good. Three test runs and I have the installation working without any intervention on my part. Now I want to test the installation on a VM with SATA hard drives only, but I don't understand how to setup the HD as sata in VMX builder. Q1: How do I do this? Setting up the sata only system. The motherboard I'm testing the installation for is an Asus P5Q. Q2: This may be a stupid question; Will adding sata drivers to the xpcd do anything if I try to use the xpcd for installation on an IDE only system (which would be my old laptop, in desperate need of a clean install). best regards

Hah! yes it is. Just got some new hardware for a budget (?) work-/gamestation. And the xfx gtx 260 (core216) is sooo big (and black)! It's like my old graphix cards walket into the showers and found he all the other guys had incredibly large wangs. Rant away, i'm just celebrating. Share my joy well-well... back to slipstreaming and creating a unattended XP install on a stick (waiting on W7 RC1). It's been so long since i did this the last time. Go figure; my last xp installation lastet 3 years w/o problems...