Sceadwian
Banned
I'm pretty psyched, I get to pick up my new machine tomorrow. A Dell XPS420 with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 3 gigs of ram and a 360 gig HD, the video card is a Radeon HD 2400 pro which is crap for 3D but supposed to be great for video, might have to update it later. Seems pretty solid, and as a bonus it has a miniature LCD screen on the top of the case with simple arrow keypad and select buttons, supposed to be able to run some mini apps on it.
Anyone else have experiance with the Core 2 Quads? The benchmarks are pretty great and I do multi task a lot. I'm going to try running something like seti@home or folding@home on one processor and see if the machine still does everything else acceptably as I know most games and software can't take advantage of all four cores at the same time.
It's also going to be my first venture into using Windows Vista.
Anyone have tips tricks advice or comments they'd like to share especially with Vista? How different from XP is the actual core system in Vista or is it mostly just window dressing?
Anyone else have experiance with the Core 2 Quads? The benchmarks are pretty great and I do multi task a lot. I'm going to try running something like seti@home or folding@home on one processor and see if the machine still does everything else acceptably as I know most games and software can't take advantage of all four cores at the same time.
It's also going to be my first venture into using Windows Vista.
Anyone have tips tricks advice or comments they'd like to share especially with Vista? How different from XP is the actual core system in Vista or is it mostly just window dressing?