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My Son the Coder

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My older son is getting his gaming computer today.

It's an iBuyPower Gamer 941AE Desktop, Intel Q6600 Quad Core Processor, 3 GB RAM (8 GB MAX), 500 GB Hard Drive, Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 512MB, Vista Premium.

It's what he liked and bought with his own money, but I had to help with the online buy at Amazon.

Also, he picked up his own copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional.

He will be getting into the Coding just like me.

In addition, he picked up Notron Internet Security 2008 and System Works.

Last week he bought his 22" widescreen monitor, Samsung, his choice.

However, I bought him a UPS to help protect his investment, Best Buy Geek Squad GS-15400U, 900 Watt, 1500 Joules surge protect, USB connect Auto Shutdown.

Later, I will get him a Gigabyte RAM-Disk and 4 GB memory for further performance enhancement; mostly for faster virtual memory support instead of using the slower hard drive.

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Avatar Todd -
#1
Sounds great! Just be sure that if you're going to buy the extra GB of RAM that you're using Vista 64-bit, not 32-bit.

Vista 32-bit can only utilize 3GB of RAM. Vista 64-bit (which I use myself) can utilize 4GB and more. My main worstation has 16GB RAM, and Vista 64-bit loves it.
Avatar JADELottery -
#2
He's blown away by it and so am I. Eventually we'll upgrade his memory to max and I'll get him a RAM drive. That would put his total possible memory near 12 GB, but even at just 3 GB it's working well. He transferred some of his older Games to it and he was surprised by the amazing increase in detail and graphic rendering. He and I have Counter Strike Source and did a compare between our systems... his is way better. Also, I was impressed by Windows Vista: graphics, layout, presentation of window forms. I haven't had the chance to do much on it. I'm think about getting something similar maybe later this year. My younger son is begging me for one, too.... shees.

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