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gdogg keep chugging away bit by bit...both on the project and the cigarette quiting...more importantly the quiting part. Good luck.

Thanks nanaki. I didnt know about that. Though IMAP would be most preferred.

What Aegis said is right. Processors do timeslicing or timesharing or multiplexing or whatever you may want to call it to give the illusion everything is running simultaneously when in fact the computer is spedning a certain amount of time with each process or thread and moving on to another one. It happens so fast we see the illusion of everything running simultaneously.

I have always been curious.....where do they get those people to show up on their advertisements.....some of them are kind of funny. But this technology reminds me a lot of what Google and Apple offer doesnt it?

Wow. What about not using Autorun? Disabling it....does that help prevent the crap from getting loaded up into the machine? Or does the action of just playing the CD for the music automatically load the crap into your machine?

I am also thinking of getting a tape drive...since every hard drive will be in RAID 0 format...a backup setup like that would be a good idea as well. I think it would be a great way to store the master footage.

Do you work for google?!

The graphics in the tv trailers looked horrible......is that true?

I have a 53 inch hdtv....I cant wait to get one of these bad boys and annoy the hell out of the parents!

Thanks for all the posts and responses fellas...I am indebted. DDR2 is definitely in the future for AMD. Socket M2 is going to be using that. Then again Intel has started sampling DDR3 and so it could well be that AMD might even skip DDR2 altogether! Who knows? My point is...that since technology is changing so fast and since there are very new products coming soon enough...by the time I arrange the funds for this machine the newer tech will be out. So I have decided to slow down...control my drool...and my pathological desire to get this hardware and be patient....to research more. For example I found out that I have to use ECC ram on that motherboard. I found out that using scsi and sata controllers instead of the onboard ones is a better idea. For that reason I can get the mobo without the SCSI option and instead get individual SCSI and SATA controllers. Also I found out a very good power supply and a few more insights as well in the amount of technical knowledge required to operate and build a workstation of this magnitude. Here is an updated list Ultimate DCC Thanks for all the feedback especially docmartin. I will be looking into your suggestions soon enough. Till then if you have any questions or any comments about my sanity as well...please feel free to post on this thread.

If only gmail allowed POP access as well.

ROFLMAO

lol I have heard this joke before in my country with a little bit of a difference.

lmao isnt that called a deadlock?!

Well looks like Toca 3 demo is out.....a preview demo.

I like GT...except on regular TV it looks like a**. Need a darn LCDHDTV

Can you explain your claim?

I understand about the reasons as to not program for a small market but how can the market increase in size if there are no programs available for it?

Yes I am drooling already right now. I can almost imagine the day when I am opening up all the boxes all these parts arrive in so I can put it together. The assembly process will be long drawn out but I will create a step by step thread then showing how to put it together. The raid setups are going to be a bit difficult methinks.

WinRAR all the way...even though there is a trend of installnig crap like themes...who the heck uses winrar for that long to warrant the installing of themes?

I didnt know toolbars were an easy means of getting crud in your machine....I use google toolbar extensively!

I think it is a virus. You can turn on the cmd prompt and type in netstat -bv to see if it is trying to call home thru the network as well....

Thanks. Looks like I will have to start looking for 64 bit versions of the programs I use if they exist. Wonder why the industry is so slow in switching to 64 bit still. MS's 64 bit OS seems quite solid from what I am reading.

Yes Zxian that is my thought as well. That is why I am determined to build it. I am just looking for the juiciest parts, researching roadmaps and product updates. I want to make it so that I dont have to upgrade in a really long while. Problem is that I chose the wrong time to get obsessed with this machine. AMD just released an awesome roadmap at Anandtech...and Nvidia and ATI are releasing newer versions of the graphics cards in Q1 of 2k6!

LMFAO