It's OK. Thanks everyone, very appreciated and comforting when a mountain suddenly falls on you. Nice to know we're humans at the end of the day and someone you didn't know but interact with over a network still retains some humanity and care.

No C2D. In fact what I'll most likely be getting won't be till next Sunday now (I have to go away 4 days (funeral) then come back to an aunts for 2 days then drive to meet my uncle 7 hours away from there (who'll give me the parts as he has them)). It's looking like an E6750 now, Zalman CNPS9700, with Gigabyte P965 DS3, a Samsung Syncmaster TFT, Corsair XMS2 PC-6400 C4 dual channel kit (black heatspreaders), an X800 GT or a 2600 XT, 2x Western Digital 80GB Caviars and a Seasonic S12 650W. They won't be mine though, I'm not paying a dime, they're his and I have to return them soon after in working condition.

Quote Originally Posted by spainis
But anyone know why KTE at startup gets that explorer commits more than 40Mb?
That's something I'm stuck on for a long time with Microsoft. Their explorer.exe gives me over a million page faults over an hour or two of running.

I did some testing with 1M on the P4 Celeron. I expected a second or two at most. Findings are very good and consistent. I've noticed the pattern too and tested to see how it works. Look at my above old 1M best time. I'll post my new ones soon.

My Prediction:
I "predict" the guys who are getting ~500/500 (balanced) on a C2D won't see any more gains. Not higher than 500, not lower, balanced. That's the sweetspot with the P4Celeron anyway. Any higher gets higher time, any lower gets higher time too. But I'll test it soon to see for myself.