[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Geoff Reed <geoffr at zipcon.net>
>Date: 2007/09/08 Sat PM 11:27:54 CDT
>To: 'The Geeks List' <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

>-----Original Message-----
>>From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf
>>Of Bill Bradford

<snip>

>>Interacting with the main system user interface should NOT require a video
>>card with more processing power and RAM than the systems I first ran XP on,
>>six years ago!

<snip>

>I saw a video card recently that had a GPU running around 700 MHz(IIRC) and
>1 GB of DDR ram on it ?!?!??!?!

Something has to drain the 1,000 watts from the latest power supplies[0].

Lionel

[0] http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010320058+1131428171&name=%3e+900W
(Link to power supplies over 900 Watts)