Thanks for your advice Benny. I do find that my computer boots up offly slow, but I guess it will be something I have to deal with . Adding another 256mb of RD ram would probably be in the $250 price range which is too much to handle. I do have a bit of patience with computers since my last one I had was 233 MHz P2 with 6 GB hard drive running Windows 95. Lets just say I count my blessings going from Windows 95 to windows XP. I have had this computer for 4 years now and I usally never buy a new computer until the one I have breaks. On my old one, it happened to be the monitor. They lose their value so fast......

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You should be able to pick up Rambus memory much cheaper than that on ebay.

HTH
Danny

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Personally, I'd go with a new system to get away from the P4 cpu architecture and go with a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo if you're an intel fan - or Athlon 64 X2 939 pin cpu if you're an AMD fan.

I'm an AMD fan, but right now I'd get a Conroe if I was getting a new system (but since I was only in the market for a chip, I got an X2 4600 as an upgrade).

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You guys better forget about that Mercury cell card, it will sell for 7999$ !!! According to xbitlabs: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20060731225157.html

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Well, let's consider the Cell-accelerator board which Mercury will sell next spring[2].

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But speaking of FLOPS/Watt: Cell wins. The whole thing might become interesting if the price drops (they annouced that board with a price-tag of 8kUSD) and if you could insert a bunch of em into a PCIe-backplane.

O.o

8 grand for a board with a Cell processor on it? The same Cell that Sony are putting in the PS3 that will sell for less than one tenth as much?

"Something's rotten in the State of Denmark" IMNSHO.

But yeah, if those could be sold for (say) five or six hundred USD a pop, AND utilized by DC projects, someone ought to be able to make a killing selling them.

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I remembered reading that the Mercury board had a bunch of them on board (or were intented to have a bunch of them on board eventually), which would make more sense from a pricing viewpoint.

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