Garbz
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<rant>
So I've decided to upgrade my computer the other day, and it is perfectly suited for it. All the engineering apps I use are well threaded, Lightroom runs well on multi-core systems, photoshop especially loves the RAM, so what the heck I figured for less than $300 I get an upgrade to 4GB of ram and go from an E6300 to a Q6600 for almost 4 times the raw processing power excluding the frontside bus gains.
WHY THE **** AM I NOW REINSTALLING WINDOWS. I mean who coded this ****. What kind of an operating system will not work with a change of processor. This is not a change in architecture, no new drivers, no real change at all. Heck the E6300 was a Core2Duo so that was dual core as well so it should use the same kernel level code as you would for a quad core. (I could understand if I went from a single core to a multicore system).
I mean I run several OSes here. Windows XP, Windows Vista, OpenSolaris, and Gentoo Linux. Why did XP and Vista cause my computer to randomly lock till I reinstalled everything.
You know what's worse? Windows NT3.1 OEM for embedded support was dropped the other day. Yes that's right, soon enough NT4 support will be dropped and then we'll be stuck with this crap in our embedded devices. I can't wait for my first fridge to bluescreen when I put a hot pan inside it as it struggles with the change in temperature.
</rant>
So I've decided to upgrade my computer the other day, and it is perfectly suited for it. All the engineering apps I use are well threaded, Lightroom runs well on multi-core systems, photoshop especially loves the RAM, so what the heck I figured for less than $300 I get an upgrade to 4GB of ram and go from an E6300 to a Q6600 for almost 4 times the raw processing power excluding the frontside bus gains.
WHY THE **** AM I NOW REINSTALLING WINDOWS. I mean who coded this ****. What kind of an operating system will not work with a change of processor. This is not a change in architecture, no new drivers, no real change at all. Heck the E6300 was a Core2Duo so that was dual core as well so it should use the same kernel level code as you would for a quad core. (I could understand if I went from a single core to a multicore system).
I mean I run several OSes here. Windows XP, Windows Vista, OpenSolaris, and Gentoo Linux. Why did XP and Vista cause my computer to randomly lock till I reinstalled everything.
You know what's worse? Windows NT3.1 OEM for embedded support was dropped the other day. Yes that's right, soon enough NT4 support will be dropped and then we'll be stuck with this crap in our embedded devices. I can't wait for my first fridge to bluescreen when I put a hot pan inside it as it struggles with the change in temperature.
</rant>