dottiecutie Posted May 4, 2009 Posted May 4, 2009 after a 7 year affair with Dell ( is that heresy here? ), I am now back in the game! have scoured this site for the past 2 weeks, and ordered or received everything in my build below.... first time overclocker....this should b interesting...want something fast/reliable...thinking 3.6/3.8 range not a gamer, very little autocad, but heavy photoshop, dreamweaver, vb6, serv-u, gotomypc, windows hellIndexing...firefox, ie8, all with media player blaring in the background etc etc, blah blah...usually have 7-8 memory hogging apps running all the time, am after shear power and speed now... trying to decide to dual boot xp pro/ vista64, or go with win7/xp emulation mode....have some xp apps that won't run in vista... will be home computer, some crashes tolerated..... adding gt9600 card to list.... reading...read...re...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheConqueror Posted May 4, 2009 Posted May 4, 2009 Why would you need to dual boot vista/xp? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savan Posted May 4, 2009 Posted May 4, 2009 (edited) Why would you need to dual boot vista/xp? He said in his post that he has some programs that wont run in Vista @ dottie Welcome to OCC. Glad to have another person in the Custom PC world, but remember... Don't Touch The Llamas! Edited May 4, 2009 by Savan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwinC Posted May 4, 2009 Posted May 4, 2009 Aloha! Welcome To OCC Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maj0rgamer Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 hey there; welcome to occ. glad to see you're choosing to get away from dell and saving money with better parts to build your own... it's a much better choice! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dottiecutie Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 thanky all... i have some drivers for telescope control equipment that won't run in vista... also still using filemaker 5.0, not vista compatible....but am gonna move that stuff to access 1 of these daze... am tempted to go win7/xp emulation.....get ahead of the os curve for once.... at least i can figure out what works in emulation mode and what doesn't ahead of time... worst case i just reformat and go back to vista64/xp dual boot... i need to research the memory issue running win7/xp emu....thought i read today xp emu needs 3-4 gig ram to run, not sharing with win7??? if thats the case, maybe i should make the jump straight to 12gig??? hey there; welcome to occ. glad to see you're choosing to get away from dell and saving money with better parts to build your own... it's a much better choice! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dottiecutie Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 well, i'm 5 minutes from frys here in sactown...makes it easy... bought most stuff there except they didn't carry the gigabyte extreme card, online order to compusa for that 1 and had to go online to frozencpu for the megahalen cooler.... all parts should be in by wednesday.... Aloha! Welcome To OCC Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwinC Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 What telescope control equipment are you running? Did you check and see if there were updated drivers for them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 Welcome and good luck with the buildup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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