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I have been working with Windows 7 as my main OS now for over a month, it has been a wonderful step up I feel, and have had very very little in the ways of crashes, instabilities, or compatibility issues. However, that being said, most of the work that I do with my computers is testing stuff...

Newegg can have some good deals, but you have to really do your shopping around and find good combo deals or rebates. And even then, the rebates are just a hassle sometimes to get all filled out and wait around for $15 to come back. I still use it often to purchase things, as they have great...

When it comes to the type of design work that most sign shops do, there's not a whole lot of demand on the actual video card, and most of it is based on the CPU performance. As others mentioned, the memory on the card is no longer the largest deciding factor. But for any design work, 512 MB...

Very nice computer setup, I like the monitors too. I think your pictures led me to an idea of creating a "Post Pictures of your Machine" thread to show off what you are rocking for your main system. Might be a fun thing to share in the general chat.

If you are doing non-CAD style design (such as 2D design work) then your graphics hardware is not as big of an issue, as really the load of rendering is based mostly off the CPU. The only major benefit of a dedicated graphics card in the past was really just to get better resolutions and color...

The Xeon 55XX series is basically the same thing as the i7 processor. When you are running several applications together that are all capable of multi-threading, having more than the four cores of the i7 could be beneficial. However, it doesn't sound like this might be the ideal case in your...

I'm also a fan of the VelociRaptor and Raptor drives from WD and have used them in several systems. If you are not quite ready for the jump into SSD territory because of support or costs reasons, the WD 10,000rpm drives I would highly recommend then. I also agree completely here, I've run...

Having just upgraded to using SSD drives in RAID 0 on my newest computer for myself, I have to SERIOUSLY suggest heavily researching into the options and information available before you make the move. I'm not saying its a bad move, I'm glad I did it! I just am saying that I researched for...

I have been testing with Windows 7 quite a bit lately, and actually have been using the RC 64-bit edition as my main operating system for a month now. Have installed and run Flexi Pro v8.1 and Flexi Expert v8.1 and both have operated perfectly without any problems. Even able to print and plot...

When doing design work any higher-clocked dual-core or quad-core processor would be your ideal processor. Most software still benefits more from the faster clock speed than multiple cores. Still, if you are planning for this computer to be in use for the next four years or so, I would still...

I understand, thank you both for your help. I wasn't sure that Acronis had the ability of restoring an image of a drive onto a new drive without having to first actually install the software. I never had created a boot disk from Acronis (or Ghost for that matter, as the boot disk I had and...

I wanted to chime in with a little more questions on this matter if possible. Several of the solutions mentioned above in this I have had a little practice testing out, being Acronis True Image and Norton Ghost. Most of my experience is with a version of Ghost, though unfortunately I don't...

I must say that you are a miracle worker in my eyes, Bob. This has been the answer that I was looking for, thank you! I mentioned this process to the guy that normally runs the cutter and he said he does recall seeing how to set that up sort of. With your description though it should be no...

Bob, Thank you for your help on this! Indeed, we are using FlexiExpert to cut with on this specific machine, but I'm not sure why I still wouldn't need some form of USB printer drivers to run the Graphtec cutter. Is there another way to recognize the printer within Production Manager or...

On the topic of 64-bit driver support: Testing Windows 7 and Graphtec FC5100 thread.

Techman, thanks for that quick reply. I'm sure that you are right. But nothing that I have is allowing me to install the printers. There is no self-extracting nice setup utility to install any of these drivers of course, it's just a list of the driver files themselves. So you must run the...

Hello all, Over the past week I've been doing some testing with Windows 7 RC x64 and some of our current software and equipment. While most all of our software and drivers are working fine so far, I have run into one thing that I was afraid of from the very beginning: our Graphtec FC5100-130...

I think it should be able to do what you need by the sounds of it. Lenovo is known for good business computers. 3 GB of RAM will be about the max that could be recognized in a 32-bit operating system like the Windows Vista Business 32 that you purchased, so an upgrade in RAM may not be needed...

I recently went through this, actually, purchasing a copy of Quickbooks Pro that was not needed by a family friend. They HAD already registered the copy with Intuit. After installing the software, with the correct registration and serial key and everything, it informed me that the registration...

Greetings again all, Recently we have been seeing more and more strange glitches occurring on one of our workstations using an nVidia Quadro FX1700 video card. Just to confirm it was the card we have tried switching the video card to two other computers, reinstalling fresh drivers each time...