Today I've got a double header for you. First of all, I can't for the life of me seem to get hardware virtualization support working on my Dell Studio 15 (Submodel 1555, P8600 CPU). Whenever I enable it in my BIOS, it stays disabled. *shrug* I don't get it. The CPU supports it, and the BIOS suggests that it and the motherboard aren't going to get in the way. The bad thing here is that this will prevent me from using the fancy Virtual XP Mode for Windows 7 feature. That's double bad since I'm having trouble with one of my company's core software products where this might help.
In other news, the two AMD Opteron 2427 processors that I purchased on Monday will be here tomorrow should UPS's delivery estimate be accurate. That's one thousand dollars worth of silicon by itself. It's insane. I'm insane. Nobody needs a 12-core desktop at home. Maybe if I were doing lots of SolidWorks renders or something it would make sense. I just think the technology is neat. Granted, I will see some real benefits though such as when I'm doing my HD x264 encodes. Throwing three times as many cores at the problem should help immensely.
Time will tell if I actually managed to upgrade or downgrade, however.
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