>The ultimate machine to work with....my Christmas present to myself.
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>Gateway Core 2 Quad Q6600 box, 8 GB of memory. God bless 64-bit
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>And best of all, due to an accounting snafu, I paid ZERO DOLLARS for it.
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>This thing screams like a chick in a horror movie. I can generate an OLAP database in less than a minute.
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> I never believed SQL Server and SharePoint could run so fast.

Are you running a 64 bit version of Vista? What kind of hard drive?

I'm in the process of building my first computer and am deciding on a processor and hard drive.