New computer ... XP or Vista?

Ok what a joke ... maybe I figured it out. This new computer so so much faster at processing video that the external Free Agent 1.5 TB hard drive is too slow and in a fraction of a second times out. I tried exporting the internal main HD and it processed with no errors or failures. Does this sound like a reasonable thing or was I just lucky?

Nope ... not so fast still API Failure on 2nd try ^%$^&*(()(*&

Don you can download windows 7 as it is still on their site and try it out..

Are you trying to get Don killed, Jason? Read what it says about having to be computer savvy etc... on Microsoft's site where you can download. (I think those warnings should apply to all versions of windows - but then, that's just me. )

Don, don't get 7, get fixed first.. sounds more like a memory problem... in the higher regions... - one thing - Windows memory tests are not very good and sometimes miss this type of error. - (Kind of recapping the beginning of this thread.)

Ya Dell. Dell sent a Sound Blaster audio card and the system would not find it. So now they are sending a new motherboard and new Sound Blaster. The system now seems stable and is very fast. I have XP back on it. I still get a message when I start Adobe Bridge CS3 that says it requires a Pentium 4, Celeron, Core Duo or Core 2 processor when it starts. So Adobe and this processor still has a problem. I think I will stay with XP until everything works normal then and only then might consider 7. If it works don't fix it.

Well maybe final outcome. Dell sent an on-site tech to replace motherboard and sound card on new system. Nope still problems. After another two hours on phone Dell is sending yet another new computer ^*&^%$##%^*

I recently had a new computer custom built and have been using windows 7 beta on it. The specs are:

Asus p6t deluxe v2 motherboard
I7 quad core 2.6ghz "hyperthreaded" processor ( = 8 rendering threads)
8 gigs Corsair Dominator GT SDRAM DDR3 2000 memory
3 x 500gb SATA hard drives in a RAID5 array
LG BD-R multi optical drive
LG DVD RW Multi optical drive
(and the kicker)
Asus (nVidia) gtx-295 dual core sli graphics card

This system runs Windows 7 beta and all my 64-bit apps as smooth as silk. It renders animation in Cinema 4D and Vue 7 Xstream startlingly fast. It calculates vector motion blur in After Effects in a flash. It plays Blu-ray movies without a hint of a stutter. And don't even get me started on the gaming performance. In fact, I can't say I've had one single issue with this computer since I bought it a few months ago. It's one of the best purchases I've ever made.

I'm freakishly happy with Windows 7 beta's performance and I'll be buying it when it's released. I just hope the release version runs as smoothly.

Thanks for that update!
Until I updated every driver in my Vista 64 machine it was crashing daily. But I may look into Windows 7

Jake

I discovered something really interesting. Most crashes that have happened only would happen at certain points - meaning points i memory. I ran a test (memtest86) and sure enough - the memory sticks are bad. Turns out that this is more common than one might think. So as a heads up - before anything - test your memory with memtest86. Just google it.. it is free and creates a bootable CD for you for testing. Run it overnight or if you can for 24 hours. It will surprise you just how many memory sticks are bad out there.

The i7 architecture is way cool. http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/09/intel-launches-all-new-pc-architecture-with-core-i5i7-cpus.ars has a nice writeup of it. The only thing I don't like is that i7 is not using ECC so it's a no-no for work computers.