I am looking for ways to improve the performance of my developers using the VS2005 IDE. Currently we waste a lot of time loading projects, building projects, and waiting for the designer. We are working with medium to large solutions ranging from 10-75 projects per solution. We try to use smaller solutions whenever possible, but we still wait a lot.
Our current platform is Dell OPTIPLEX GX280, Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz, HyperThreaded with 2 GB of RAM.
What is the best bang for the buck: Faster CPU, 10K RPM hard disks, RAM disk, RAID 0?