At 02:41 PM 5/20/2008, you wrote:
Why would you get a 3Ghz quad, 4GB of ram, and x38 mainboard... and then run a 32bit OS?
The performance gain for a 64 bit is not as big as you are making it out to be, and there are lots of issues. At least from what I have read. Take a look at this months editors comments in MaxiumPC on Vista64.
One thing I am sensing as a little bit strange is... your media box is going to vastly outstrip your primary pc?
yeah, because editing video and encoding video is where I need the horsepower. Not in my day to day business work. I don't need a Quadcore to browse, email, work with Word and Excel, and play game of chess. But a Quadcore can probably take a encoding job that takes my P4 3.4 six hours and turn it into 45 minutes.. at least I am hoping. Besides my primary PC is a dual Xeon 3.06 with 4GB of RAM, raptor drives, and a X1950. not exactly a clunker.
what videocard are you considering for the media box?
I happen to have a Matrox APVE that I was thinking of using. It was designed to do video editing. I only need HD support. I am not interested in games.
Or at least games I couldn't play on my primary PC.
