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bullshit lies: http://www.short-media.com/articles/vista_upgrade

People drop them, spill water on them, http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t= 8764 put them in the washing machine, etcetra. People are stupid and careless. In addition, capacitors and other parts DO have a limited lifetime.

Do you have some benchmarks of it against the (newer) Intel GMA 950 (which is the chip the MacBook has)?
Why yes I do! Last one is in German, but numbers are still numbers regardless of language.

Given a choice between the two, I'd actually take the Intel chip because it's got a Free 3D-accelerated driver and the Nvidia one doesn't.
That's like saying "No, I'd rather walk than drive. I'd have to pay for gas."
it's got a Free 3D-accelerated driver
Oh, and the driver is always free. It's the chip itself that cost money.

So does this allow you to "install" programs into the ISO file

Yes, that's exactly what it's for. I did this when I last upgraded my PC, because I was going SATA RAID, knew that the drivers wouldn't be available on my XP Pro CD (it predates SP1), and couldn't be bothered to buy a floppy drive (I've not had one for years). I integrated the drivers, Service Pack 2 and a few other hotfixes.

Have a look at this article, which details using nLite to perform the slipstreaming (note that the link in the article is dead for me).

It took me a couple of goes to get right, but ultimately that was my fault for not paying proper attention. The tool itself is pretty cool, and lets you integrate pretty-much anything appropriate into the installation CD, as well as allowing you to set defaults, including the product key; if you wish, you can make a completely unattended setup disk - literally allowing you to boot off the CD and walk away.

This article is useful in that it gets people thinking about the problem. Now some clever person can come up with a proposed solution and post an article about it. That's how it works.

It's not like nobody's ever discussed these issues before. Or have they?

Here is a link to a more complete review:
http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=316

Dual core technology. AMD was the first. 20 dual cores for AMD, 14 dual cores for Intel.

Both are probably going to ship quad cores in early 2007.

Not sure where you're getting your data.

And those dinky welds... Remember, he cut off the base of the tower when he got it, and had to homebrew a new base. It looks like there's just one inch of weld (with rust!) holding each tower leg. And it's a weld on galvanized steel. You have to grind or burn off the galvanized zinc coating before welding, or you get a weld to the coating, which is like glueing to paint. The weld doesn't look good, either - the bead isn't even. Here's a welding tutorial. Look at their pictures of good and bad welds. Then compare the weld in the article. It's worse than any "bad weld" shown. A good weld is stronger than the material it attaches. Not this one.

He's got plenty of cement base, and the tower itself is probably strong enough, but the connections between the two are far weaker than either. When it breaks, it's going to break at the weld between the tower leg and the metal gusset. Right where the rust shows through the paint.

there is at the bottom of the last page. maybe you just had loading problems (the site timed out once on an entire page for me and needed some refreshing to get all the images. coral cache was even worse)

the image with the whole tower can be found at http://www.short-media.com/images/articles/tower_i mages/final.jpg

Google tells me that AMD use Hypertransport to have Athlon 64's talk to the system, to have Opterons talk to the system and to each other.

Google also tells me that Apple use Hypertransport in the present line of G5's to connect their disk drives, USB and Firewire items to the system bus. While not explicitly saying that HT is used for everything -- particularly the memory interconnect we're arguing about here -- the link does hint strongly at this being the case.

Thank you for being so personable. :-P

How on EARTH do you run 17 fans? Do you honestly believe you need them?

Have a look here.

Deliberate overkill may be your style, but there are probably better ways to accomplish what you are looking for.

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?article id=592&cid=1
http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/athlon64-fx55 /index.x?pg=1
http://www.bit-tech.net/review/364/
http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=266
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1 666
http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=331
http://www.amdreview.com/reviews.php?rev=fx-55-400 0
http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/processors/amd 4000_fx55/
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njc1
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlo n64-fx55.html
http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=614

Creatine's just an amino acid.

Not one of the vital ones to life: ie, if you don't have it, your protiens will not all mis-fold / you will not degenerate into a corpse.

Having WAYYY too much Creatine will help fuel bacterial growth & whatnot. Still, Creatine is a neat fuel, the body likes having it in muscle to fuel short-term bursts of energy.

Interested in more about amino acids/proteins and what they can mean to you? Check out Folding@Home as mentioned on Slash_ _dot

And fold for team #93