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richard371

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After almost 2 months nMP (6 core, 512, D700, 16GB) and the refurbished 27" thunderbolt actually arrived on my birthday. It was a breeze to set up and only took me about 2 hours to reinstall my apps and my VMware fusion windows domain (2008 R2, Exchange 1010 and windows 7/8 clients). I read about the coil whine and can barely hear it but its there if I put my ear up close but a non issue. Finally it became louder and I realized it was the WD HD drive heads that was making the noise when I was transferring data otherwise I can barely hear the coil whine form the machine.

Overall I'm pretty impressed. Not only is it a work of art and doubles as a cat feeder, it is fast. I did turn everything up on X-plane 10 and it got choppy but I hear thats typical of X-plane. Hopefully they will release an update to leverage both GPUs.

EDIT: I think I'm going to have to bump it up to 32GB soon. Im sitting pretty with the Windows 2008 r2 domain controller, exchange server 2010, and 1 windows 7 client running with a nice 174MB free lol.



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Overall I'm pretty impressed. Not only is it a work of art and doubles as a cat feeder, it is fast. I did turn everything up on X-plane 10 and it got choppy but I hear thats typical of X-plane. Hopefully they will release an update to leverage both GPUs.


There was something mentioned about XPlane in the latest Catalyst drivers for Windows.

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 Beta V1.3 Driver for Windows®

Here:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

Not sure that helps you?
 
Overall I'm pretty impressed. Not only is it a work of art and doubles as a cat feeder, it is fast.
Neat idea, when I replace my oMP, I may have to consider that as I have a bit of an infestation problem!! :eek:
 

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My cats were really annoyed when I got rid of my old huge CRT monitors back in the day..
 
Animals and human animals

Cats are vile animals that belong outside.

Who was that famous person who said "The more I know people, the more I appreciate my pet" ?
I think he meant his dog but it might apply to cats as well.
If I had to kill animals by myself I would be a vegetarian. No doubt.
Strange people are found in this forum..., cat haters...
 
My cats were really annoyed when I got rid of my old huge CRT monitors back in the day..
Flat screens are not a problem if you have cat balance. Except the latest iMac that has been made pointlessly slimmer, as that will would challenge even the nimblest of moggies.

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If I had to kill animals by myself I would be a vegetarian. No doubt.
Strange people are found in this forum..., cat haters...
So you don't mind paying others to kill animals then?
Strange people you find in this forum. :p
 
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