long time no see Naquaada. I went the intel route along time ago im on an i7 860 (4cores @ 2.8ghz) with a gigabyte board along time ago. Ive never looked back i got sick of patching this and that. As a small example i encode 8 flacs to vbr mp3 at the same time in secs with xld. Ive never done anything that makes my system feel slow even with few virtual system open on fusion. Ive 4gb of memory as well. The only single gripe i have is trying to find a nic that will do jumbo frames properly. Im still on 10.6.8 but im considering updating heres my specs and ignore my seriously outdated signature :-



00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield DMI (rev 11)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield System Management Registers (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield System Control and Status Registers (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Clarksfield/Lynnfield Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation QPI Link (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB Universal Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB Universal Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB Universal Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB Universal Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB Universal Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB Universal Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB Universal Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)
02:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. 20360/20363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
02:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. 20360/20363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
04:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

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