Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/15/2009 9:08 PM, DaveT wrote:

Tazz<dmswaine@gmail.com>  wrote:

DaveT wrote:

Skywise<into@oblivion.nothing.com>  wrote:
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DaveT<svirtftcyt@yahoo.com>  wrote in

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Skywise<into@oblivion.nothing.com>  wrote:

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Thanks for this info. How did you happen to come by Windows 7?

It's Windows 7 beta build 7000. It'll run until Aug. 3 or something like 
that. I got it from Microsoft in Feb.

Can anyone get that?

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I tried XP64 a couple of years ago and had to give up on it because of 
lack of support and there wasn't really any 64 bit apps for it. Even 
now, Firefox 64 works OK but there is no 64 bit Flash so what's the 
good? Java 64 seemed to work a little, but a lot of web sites couldn't 
"find" it so those web sites didn't load.

Got the flash problem also, but even those 32 bit apps will take advantage
of that huge memory capacity.

Now on Win7 x64 the only truly 64 bit apps I'm using are Shredder 
(Thunderbird64) and Avast! The rest are regular old 32 bit programs.

Nobody seems to want to invest time on an application that won't
run on XP32 while it still has a 62% market share (Zdnet).

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I'm going to have to get a new motherboard, RAM, power supply, 
processor, and video card. The motherboard I'm looking at has a geforce 
8200 on board so I might try that for a while, but I imagine I'll be 
getting something better.

OK, here it is, My CUDA / HD video machine, Nov. '08 prices:
CASE RAIDMAX|ATX-208BP 450W RT $44.99
CPU AMD|A64 X2 4850E 2.5G AM2 R  $59.99 (45 watt dual core)
MB GIGABYTE GA-MA78G-DS3H RT    $86.99
MEM 1Gx2|KST 240P KVR800D2N5K2/2G $28.99
HD 250G|HITC 7K 8M HDP725025GLAT80 $59.99
DVD Burner                                       $25.00
VGA GIGABYTE GV-NX84S512HP 8400GS R $39.99 (PCI-e 1.0 x16 512 MB)
Total minus tax and shipping: $346
Misc. Mouse, Kbd, Optic cable plus the $200 Happauge HD PVR 1212
and stuff I already had like the monitors and speakers.
I was trying to go low end but not rock bottom. So it's $346
for the basic machine. I think that's pretty reasonable for 
a computer that's the fastest in the house. (Then there's Windows to consider.)
I record the video to a 1TB e-SATA external drive I already had.