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To joetheblow: that would be an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ To Motion: I wasn't getting personal, there's no need for you to get offended and start. I was merely making an observation. To everyone else: First off, I hope everyone had a merry Xmas. Second,when I started this thread, I also asked if there was perhaps something that I missed that was causing the problem. Apparently there may have been as I gave it another shot and ran some back to back tests. I'm not entirely certain what

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very true, I guess I was more taken aback at the hard hit that it took in some benches. I would say that yes, overall I didn't notice any ill effects while using windowblinds, although I did host a couple GR games that started getting choppy through my LAN and that had never ever happened before. Granted it was an intensive co-op map with lot's of enemies, but that may very well have been what put it over the edge. I'm not running a slow system by any stretch of the imagination. I've got a top o

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COSBI link is now posted on my site in the downloads section. http://members.shaw.ca/need4speed/ If you don't believe me, try it yourself. run it once with WB loaded and then unload and give it another go. An 80% drop in CPU math ops is not just rivet counting. That is a noticeable difference and will affect other programs overall. If you're happy using it, go ahead and keep using it, personally I saw adverse effects and will discontinue said use. Like I said before, there were aspects of the be

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Yes, COSBI was originally developed by Van Smith. No, he no longer has it available for download on his site. Mainly he was being harrassed by Intel fanboys so much and receiving threats that he pulled out completely. Problem was, the COSBI benchmark suite reveals the P4 for what it is and Intel was not happy about it, but that's a tale for a different message board. I have a copy of it at home and I'll post it on my website this evening in the downloads section if anyone is interested. The addr

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This is a gorgeous program, it can do so much to the boring old windows interface, but I have to say it is gone from my system. WHen I can run COSBI benchmarks 5 times faster without this program installed, it's gotta go. Has anybody else seen this, or have I missed something? Is there a setting that will run this program without using up all the resources on your comp? (Style XP does) <img src="http://images.stardock.c