> Then again, as soon as you boot Vista, it seems to spend an inordinate 
> amount of time thrashing the HD to pieces.

I wouldn't know, my box is under the desk and I can't hear the drive (and 
besides I almost never reboot it).  My suspicion is that XP64 was not 
optimised to make proper use of amounts of RAM like 8GB (after all, when XP 
was released 256 MB was common).

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