So, after looking around at the overpriced packaged systems being offered to fill my needs, the ol CCard and hrs of shopping in my recliner ensued. I'm doing these 2 for the price of 1 store bought frozen.
btw, that Q6700 is a great video processor if running a 8500 GT / 512 MB equivalent or higher.
My job also entails me to keep up with such though I work primarily with optical communications.
Anyway, still doesn't prevent downloading / uploading a trojan, virus etc.
Well, I can say one thing, glad I've managed my credit well as to have a CCard for the above....otherwise, I'd been stuck with shopping for less than I want for more money.
I normally run a MB for about 5 years, although the laptops are a little older. Don’t think I’ve ever had a MB actually fail on me. I do use MAC filtering on the router also.
Right now have a bizarre problem on the desktop where accelerated video for HD playback with Xine is suddenly not working. This was one of the most reliable things. Needless to say I didn’t watch any HD content over the weekend. Xine will play audio for a couple of seconds, then hang. But once in a hundred tries or so it will play A&V just fine even with acceleration for a couple minutes until it crashes. Now the strange thing is it’s happening with every kernel I have (newest is 2.6.27.10) and different Nvidia drivers. Without the vxmc motion compensation it works, although the old Sempron and mx400 can’t begin to keep up. I’m going to build a special kaffeine with xvmc later today to try. Haven’t got mplayer to show HD video yet and haven’t yet tried mythtv with the HD card (although it does work with the ntsc card).