Last night my systemed finished it's burn in (knoppix 5.01). I used Acronis Universal Restore to get my old image back up and running and pointed it at the new drivers. It all loaded w/o a hitch. I was glad to see that the system booted faster than my old amd2000xp.
I have to say if you need to upgrade and wish to keep your old OS, the easiest way is Acronis. In my situation I've already gone the route of VMs so the base OS is just the OS w/ A/V and FW, nothing else. All my software (open office, office, sql etc) run as VMs. Even the video conversion software. Nero also is on the base OS, but that's so I can do my video capture as I really dig the capture utility for firewire. Some things I've noticed run ubber quick. I will be running both compression / decompression routines to see how things are affected. BTW, there is a new VM workstation out, (5.2) On 8/19/06, Zulfiqar Naushad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Congrats man!!! This makes my system looks ancient!!! I am planning on upgrading........but not for a while....... Perhaps in 6 months when I do upgrade, I will look into a decent laptop. Francisco Tapia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so today I ran out and picked up the c51gm-m w/ the AMD x2 (3800+) plus 2 sticks of dd2 (1gb) ram to start up with (this is after all still winxp pro) the board is said to support up to 16gb, but I will need to get rid of the initial 2gigs ... :| I am planning on pulling out the heart of my system tonight, (amd2000XP, 1gb) that's been with me since 3/2002. On 8/18/06, Christopher Klein wrote: > So you normally carry a pocket book? > > Not sure about the rest of the guys on here but I use a wallet. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:25 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: [H] AMD X2 dive > > I'm looking into an upgrade that won't hurt the pocket book to bad, been > looking at this today, what do others think of this combo? > http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4912291 > > -- > -Francisco > http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news with out the jargon! > http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... > > -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... ________________________________ Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1ยข/min.
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