Got your full comment okay this time.

On Windows7, that's much of what the blogs say, it has a large footprint. I've read about the new taskbar and expect that some tweak package will come out that allows you to alter that. That's the problem with design by committee and competition of committees at MS. We end up with useless UI improvements.

I downloaded the 64bit edition since this will be the main platform retailers push, such as Dell, HP and the others. What the blogs have stated is that device support is superior to Vista which is good. But, so much was renamed in the control panel and reorganized I can't see us not being familiar with it.

I'll probably go with the Phenom II with 6MB Level 3 Cache that's the most flexible for overclocking. I like to test the actual limits of these things and know first hand what is reasonable and when ti starts to break down. Most of the boards I've looked over that have performance oriented configurations limit RAM to 8 GB which is fine by me, but I'll never load four GPU cards at a time.

I've never had tha biggest baddest latest GPU cards, ever. Those are for idiots in my opinion. I like the Radeon 4000 series card on a AMD chipset. IT fails on a Nvidia chipset. I've ordered a 9400 GO 1GB card (DDR2) for the dual core 5200 with Nvidia chipset. That's for the old lady who doesn't play games but does extensive photo editing, so those load times and processing times are important and this card will do that and play Far Cry2 at full screen anti aliasing as well, so long as the board, CPU and RAM are in the Best Range.

I've played FEAR through about 5 or 6 times because its not exactly linear. Sure, you get from here to there, but like Half LIfe 2, you can do different things differently and have better action and entertainment. Same thing with Far Cry, there were so many ways to take on the challenge that I've still not exhausted all the paths through that game. I just found the End Boss challenge boring.

See ya, later.
WV




Got your full comment okay this time.

On Windows7, that's much of what the blogs say, it has a large footprint. I've read about the new taskbar and expect that some tweak package will come out that allows you to alter that. That's the problem with design by committee and competition of committees at MS. We end up with useless UI improvements.

I downloaded the 64bit edition since this will be the main platform retailers push, such as Dell, HP and the others. What the blogs have stated is that device support is superior to Vista which is good. But, so much was renamed in the control panel and reorganized I can't see us not being familiar with it.

I'll probably go with the Phenom II with 6MB Level 3 Cache that's the most flexible for overclocking. I like to test the actual limits of these things and know first hand what is reasonable and when ti starts to break down. Most of the boards I've looked over that have performance oriented configurations limit RAM to 8 GB which is fine by me, but I'll never load four GPU cards at a time.

I've never had tha biggest baddest latest GPU cards, ever. Those are for idiots in my opinion. I like the Radeon 4000 series card on a AMD chipset. IT fails on a Nvidia chipset. I've ordered a 9400 GO 1GB card (DDR2) for the dual core 5200 with Nvidia chipset. That's for the old lady who doesn't play games but does extensive photo editing, so those load times and processing times are important and this card will do that and play Far Cry2 at full screen anti aliasing as well, so long as the board, CPU and RAM are in the Best Range.

I've played FEAR through about 5 or 6 times because its not exactly linear. Sure, you get from here to there, but like Half LIfe 2, you can do different things differently and have better action and entertainment. Same thing with Far Cry, there were so many ways to take on the challenge that I've still not exhausted all the paths through that game. I just found the End Boss challenge boring.

See ya, later.
WV

What a great question. If you have an onboard display adapter that shares video ram with stick ram that's disabled, then it is possible the video ram from your cards could add to the total onboard memory.

If your board does not have an onboard vga with shared memory, I suppose that is also possible but should be an OS issue vs mboard as I see it.

As you know, in theory we should be able to put 128GB of RAM on these boards.

BTW, the GeForce card I got was a 9400GT with 1GB DDR2 RAM built by Sparkle. I installed the reference drivers and its pretty sweet. Haven't had the time to install and play Far Cry 2 yet and up all the video settings but another user has and gets great frame rates. Been swamped her with business and commitments, but that's almost over once I brief our county government on a video security system I'll install at the airport. I get helpers from Public Works to help and I don't have to hire my own. That's pretty sweet. They just impossed a cieling on my fee, which is okay. The idea is to get jobs under the belt for County Government in the States here. Once you're in you're in.


What a great question. If you have an onboard display adapter that shares video ram with stick ram that's disabled, then it is possible the video ram from your cards could add to the total onboard memory.

If your board does not have an onboard vga with shared memory, I suppose that is also possible but should be an OS issue vs mboard as I see it.

As you know, in theory we should be able to put 128GB of RAM on these boards.

BTW, the GeForce card I got was a 9400GT with 1GB DDR2 RAM built by Sparkle. I installed the reference drivers and its pretty sweet. Haven't had the time to install and play Far Cry 2 yet and up all the video settings but another user has and gets great frame rates. Been swamped her with business and commitments, but that's almost over once I brief our county government on a video security system I'll install at the airport. I get helpers from Public Works to help and I don't have to hire my own. That's pretty sweet. They just impossed a cieling on my fee, which is okay. The idea is to get jobs under the belt for County Government in the States here. Once you're in you're in.