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Update [2011 Aug 6]: The original drivers appear to work just fine under Lion v10.7 Please see here for background on the “main PC = NAS” approach this hardware facilitates. And here for my other Hackintosh tribulations with getting my old graphics card to work. I’m very satisfied for a... [Read More]

Apparently the culprit of my slowdown was the VMware debugger integration… resolution here I merely uninstalled the VMDebugger component via VMware Desktop setup.exe …  I did *not* have to completely uninstall all of VMware Desktop to see an significant improvement to Visual Studio startup time… down to a few seconds... [Read More]

This sums it up very well Don’t forget to run the VSSAdmin commands under a 64bit CMD.exe if you’re on 64bit Windows. I know that sounds obvious but I run something called TakeCommand Console LE which is a great shell but the free version is 32bit only. [Read More]

Good reference [Read More]

(see round 1 notes for full specs) After watching a quick youtube of a guy that hit 3.9Ghz (485MHz FSB) where he didn’t bat and eye about leaving his DDR2 at something around 1000MHz, I decided to copy his lead and give up on the 1:1 DRAM:FSB thing and just... [Read More]