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Vista performance update
24 January 07 10:55 PM | mhatch | 0 Comments   

I finally got my secondary display working - by buying a different video card. I went with an ATI X1300 series with 256Mb RAM. Performance overall was still pretty poor, and although this video card has more RAM, it was actually rated lower (4.1) by the Read More...

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First experiences installing Vista Ultimate at home
12 November 06 10:07 PM | mhatch | 0 Comments   

I brought home Vista Ultimate now that we've RTM'ed to install it on my home machine. The machine is an HP Media Center m7170n Pentium D 3Ghz dual core with 1Gb RAM and a custom XFXForce Dual DVI video card (NVidia 6600 chipset). Single 220Gb HD. I was Read More...

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