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ah ha! "...[edit] Windows XP Professional x64 Edition This edition supports the x86-64 extension of the Intel IA-32 architecture. x86-64 is implemented by AMD as "AMD64", found in AMD's Opteron and Athlon 64 chips, and implemented by Intel as "Intel 64" (formerly known as IA-32e and EM64T)...

Over on Newegg some of the feedback on the WinXP Pro X64 states that it's root is Server 2003 and not NT, and that's why the XP X64 works so well (stable, fast, etc.). Can anyone on here confirm or deny any of this?

What is the cost incurred in producing a chip, or a core? Certainly not the input cost of material. So does it really cost them anything more to make a 16 core chip relative to a 4 core chip? The heavy cost is the R&D, tooling and retooling of factories, marketing, advertising, golden...

Do you have evidence that Henry Paulson has an interest in GS this present day?

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90% of the services running in any Windows install are never used. They are in there "in case" the user wants to use them. Great examples are stupid shit like Messenger, Games, Blah, Blah, Blah. This shit bogs down our systems and only causes us more and more latency and problems. Every time...

I would go further and say anyone running McAfee or Symantec on anything is asking for trouble. I have had both of their programs trash systems of mine. I refuse to have anything to do with either of them.

I've heard there are some registry hacks and other tips and tricks, but I hesitate to do them. With regards to the services disabling, if I were confident I knew which did what, I would jump in there in a heartbeat and disable everything I don't use. But I don't have a bible on services and...

I agree with you Bernard. If our priority programs (trading and charting) can be on dedicated cores and Bill Gates' trash "processes" can be on other cores, it just might give us what we paid for for the first time in history, and that is, a computer doing what we pay it to do without being...

What's the most money any of you paid for some of those older systems? I remember a sign contractor telling me he paid $35,000 USD for a computer with a 50 processor (at the time I was buying the latest greatest PIII-550 and he said his was a "50")

You mean someone with a brain is actually involved in making software? Holy guacamole!!!!! User input is actually given priority? I'm in shock!!!!

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/bang-dual-processing-buck,815-2.html If you click the dropdown on that page and go back one page, there's a utility available but it has mixed reviews. Also not sure if that utility is for "dual cpu" systems or "multi-core" cpu's. But task manager has a...

Do you know how to allocate programs to different cores? And how do I tell what's on which cores?

Stupid question: is there a Sears (retail store) at the Sears Tower?

I still have an old Dimension 4550. I don't remember if I paid $299 or $399 but it works great. I use it for e-mail, surfing, autocad, photoshop, etc. and it does great for all that stuff. I used to have an account with OptionsXpress because I liked the products they have (they really do...

Now that's funny Gnome. Unless WinXP is the first OS you have ever used, you have had systems freeze/ fail. And you've never traded on some junk java system and had it freeze up? I agree most of the time something freezes it's software related. But software is limited by hardware. I...

All I know is I spent more hours then my time was worth to try to find out how fsb/ cpu speed/ ram speed/ etc. all works or does not work together and the only info I could seem to come up with was OCZ telling me that if my RAM speed was slower then the other speeds that's where my bottlenecks...

FYI: I'm running a QX6850 (quad) Core2 Extreme 1333 fsb w 4gb (1x4gb) DDR3 1333 OCZ Platinum on a Asus P5K64WS (1333 fsb) w/ WinXP Pro X64 and the case is cold to the touch. It has never missed a beat in all this volatility. I have four (4) PCIeX16 slots and at max buildout I can have 16...

I had DSL for several years and it sucked; can't remember a 24 hour period where it worked flawlessly. And that's being located 1.25 line miles from what in its day was the biggest switch in the nation. But I have since heard the trunk line between here and there as shot (and still is). I...

The ping is your latency assuming you have a decent system setup. I hope you are pinging the server or city where your trades occur. To ping Seattle from San Francisco when you're trading NYSE stocks does not give you good data to make an informed decision. All that being said, you're not...