I listen to a continual loop of Peanut Butter Jelly Time.

Sorry, that should have been "It's very hard to run anything with 512K RAM anymore" The original post was asking if a sempron with 512K RAM could run VS2005. I'm sure it was a typo and I was referencing an old Bill Gates quote. 512K Cache is definately useful for the current generation of processors.

You can use Server.MapPath to translate from the relative path to the absolute. You may run into permissions exceptions, just a heads up. ~A

I'm sorry, I wasn't very clear. I didn't mean that the Sempron and Celeron didn't have cache, just that the cache had been modified to be inferior. (They used to remove large pieces of it) It is purely a marketing game where they will cripple a chip (which costs a little extra because it's an extra step) and then sell it at a reduced price so that they can maintain a higher price on their regular chips. My personal recomendation would be to get the full Athlon. Even if you get a slower clock speed, it could wind up being faster because of it's cache.

I'm sure I'm not the best expert on this, but the first two things I would do are: 1) double check your connection string in the app 2) check out the resources that your app is using, potentially it could be hogging everything so that sql server runs more slowly and times out hope those help or that someone else can give you the real low down ~A

I'm hoping you mean 512MB RAM. It's very hard to run anything with 512K anymore, even though Gates said that you would never even need that much. The main difference between the Sempron and Athlon or the Celeron and P3/P4 is the cache. The processor can do the same work, but it won't seem nearly as fast because it doesn't have the same on-die cache.

Wow, good point. As an American, I completely agree. We should remove Pluto as a planet and re-enter it as "The United States of Pluto" and make it king of the planets because we Americans do everything out of our foolish pride.