Holy crap! What ISP and how much per month? Here in Ontario the best I can get is 50mbps down and 2mbps up and that is $99.99 per month with a 250GB cap.
Get nlite... slipstream your drivers, service packs and other updates. It makes it so much easier, especially if you need to reinstall the OS at a later date.
Its the Matrox millenium G400 you're thinking of and it was a great 3D card, every bit as fast as a TNT2 (in D3D). The main problem was that it didn't ship with an OpenGL ICD... it used a D3D to OpenGL wrapper.... just like the Matrox G200. Once it got the ICD (although it didn't get a full ICD...
Did you even read the wiki link you posted? As far as apps are concerned, they see a logical processor the same as a physical core (unless the app was developed with HT in mind). Applications need to be optimized for HT just like they need to be for a multicore processor, if you see a...
Give me a break, you posted that a process can only use a single core, even if it is uses more than one thread. That just isn't true... a simple google search could have told you that. For example, if you google thread. One of the first links that comes up is from wikipedia, in the wikipedia...
Try google.. tons of explanations on how threading works. FF doesn't make use of multiple cores (at least very well) not because it uses threads, but because of how it divides up work between threads.
Left for dead works fine in XP x64... at least for me. There were only a few games I had problems with, Doom3 RoE was the one I remember and that was only because the installer would misdetect the OS and not install. It worked fine after a quick hack of the installer.
XP x64 works just fine and you can game on it, although there really is no reason to use it over windows 7. If you don't like how 7 looks you can make it look just like XP, I use classic shell to get the start menu to look like it does in XP for example. I used XP x64 for years on all 5 of my...
If you really want to game without replacing that system, first thing you should do is get it up to 2gigs of ram. You should be able to find some dirt cheap on ebay or something. I would also replace that proc with a newer P4 that has hyperthreading. As for the video card... anything that...