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My aurora from 2 years ago. I added another harddrive and got a new fan thats it. when my dads old antec from ten years ago (well built machine..) fail's, he will give me the case and im going to make a new one.

janno said:

i`m willing to bet that within 5 years we`ll have a rig that is not only capable of 128 bit, but implementing it on a greater scale that 64 bit is implemented now in current systems (don`t forget, 64 bit is not even being fully used today)

Well, just mark it on your calendar and 5 years from now we can come back and discuss. I do not believe that within 5 years we will have a base of 128bit that greatly exceeds where we are with 64-bit today (which is only really in it's infancy still). I'd actually be surprised if we even had a consumer grade 128bit CPU available in the market.

janno said:

take for example my Dell Latitude C400 PIII laptop with 512MB RAM an 40 gb HD.

it runs W7 easily, with 8 years of age that`s not bad.

ofcourse it has no 3d support, but Office, AdobeCS3, it all runs...

so this is a machine that 8 years ago didnt have the highest specs, and just being a simple laptop, can still run W7 with no problems.

I`m not saying W8 or W9 will bann 64 machines, but i`m guessing my other specs can easily take whatever MS has in store for the coming 2 or even 3 editions of windows, supporting 64 bits a long time to come...

I never indicated that your current build would have any issues in the coming versions of Windows. In fact, I said you would probably be just fine for nearly 10 years in an earlier post. As you indicate here, even a modest spec machine from 8 years ago is workable in today's world. And even if you would have doubled the RAM back then and spent the money on an 80GB hard drive....by todays' standards both would be antiquated....although you would have spent a lot more. That's the point that I am making here, you hint that you considered 24GB of RAM and that seems just downright silly. I fell that even 12GB of RAM is probably 2x what you really need. And I'm certain that 5 years from now, even with 6GB of RAM, the box would be just fine and dandy.

anybody have a link to 6gb ram on a single stick?

Internet Badass said:

anybody have a link to 6gb ram on a single stick?

No, computers do everything in binary...so you get 0, 1mb, 2mb, 4mb, 8mb, 16mb, 32mb, 64mb, 128mb, 256mb, 512mb, 1024mb, 2048mb, 4096mb, 8194mb, 16,384, 32,678 and so on.