This link is in Italian, but in the bottom you have some compile time's comparison in VS2010 on different processors. http://www.tomshw.it/cont/articolo/recensione-amd-fx-8150-bulldozer-delude-la-strada-e-ancora-lunga-risultati-benchmark-produttivita/33899/17.html[^] Cheers!

cheers for the replies will check them otu :)

Thanks I appreciate the comments. It is, as you rightly point out, my first time experiencing this kind of thing. I am not used to someone saying one thing and then going in the opposite direction. It is hard to accept. You are right though and I appreciate your comments.

I plumped for a cheapo 'hybrid' in my rather lacklustre Acer i5. Rebuilt on the new drive so only c:. Wow what a difference, I can concurrently run several instances of VS2010, along with SQL Manager, SQL server and Lightroom 3, and all the other usual office stuff. Totally rocks. I chose Seagate Momentus 320GB, think I paid £72 from some outfit in the Channel Islands :)

Try the database forum. :) ============================== Nothing to say.

I honestly think that certification are a good way to get past the first gatekeeper and possibly toward the top of the stack when looking for work. After that, you need to be able to show that you actually know the stuff the certifications cover. I'll also add that I really don't the the MS certification have any relation to real world problems. Study the test, take the test, get the cert. I was able to pass there ASP.Net Development certification even though I hadn't (at the time) done any real world ASP.Net development, and had hardly dabbled in it in my own time.

Hmmm, perhaps I should vote to remove this thread - I can't be having my sons see the recommendations. Ger

Nagy Vilmos wrote: It's the kid in all of us. Heh. Sometimes I think we need our collective diapers changed. :laugh: