I got this as a present, and installed it in my machine. Unfortunately, I accidentally loosened the video card and the machine got flaky on me. Two days of troubleshooting later brought me to that conclusion. So I went to Fry's and picked up a 8400 GS based card and this machine flies. I also decided to format everything and start from scratch. A week later, I now have Gentoo 64bit and Vista Ultimate 64bit dual booted where I only had 32Bit Vista before (and a frustrating 2.8 gigs out of 4 gigs useable RAM). This machine now flies! I haven't yet needed to boot to Vista, btw. Since I use my machine primarily to program, the Linux environment is much more convenient. The only thing I'm missing from Linux that I don't get in Windows is the games and Adobe's suite of products (and to a lesser extend, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Photo Gallery). However, I'm trying to fix that by installing Wine :)
I got this as a present, and installed it in my machine.
Unfortunately, I accidentally loosened the video card and the machine got flaky on me.
Two days of troubleshooting later brought me to that conclusion.
So I went to Fry's and picked up a 8400 GS based card and this machine flies.
I also decided to format everything and start from scratch.
A week later, I now have Gentoo 64bit and Vista Ultimate 64bit dual booted where I only had 32Bit Vista before (and a frustrating 2.8 gigs out of 4 gigs useable RAM).
This machine now flies! I haven't yet needed to boot to Vista, btw. Since I use my machine primarily to program, the Linux environment is much more convenient.
The only thing I'm missing from Linux that I don't get in Windows is the games and Adobe's suite of products (and to a lesser extend, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Photo Gallery).
However, I'm trying to fix that by installing Wine :)