help with optimizing my server

[IAMWhitey]

1. Dedicated
2. P4 2.8ghz 1mb cache Hyperthreading
512mb DDR ram
120GB SATA
Windows 2003 Web Server
IIS 6.0
php 4.3.7
MySQL version: mysql 4.0

3. no
4. window installer
5. not sure what you are looking for here, the site gets about 100k hits a day. with about 150 users logging in every day with an average of 10-30 concurrent users
6.
#This File was made using the WinMySQLAdmin 1.4 Tool
#7/10/2004 11:25:01 PM
#Uncomment or Add only the keys that you know how works.
#Read the MySQL Manual for instructions
[mysqld]
basedir=C:/mysql
#bind-address=192.168.1.101
datadir=C:/mysql/data
#language=C:/mysql/share/your language directory
#slow query log#=
#tmpdir#=
#port=3306
#set-variable=key_buffer=16M
[WinMySQLadmin]Server=C:/mysql/bin/mysqld-nt.exe

7.
+--------------------------+-----------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+-----------+
| Aborted_clients | 0 |
| Aborted_connects | 0 |
| Bytes_received | 117479001 |
| Bytes_sent | 477670460 |
| Com_admin_commands | 0 |
| Com_alter_table | 0 |
| Com_analyze | 0 |
| Com_backup_table | 0 |
| Com_begin | 0 |
| Com_change_db | 24069 |
| Com_change_master | 0 |
| Com_check | 0 |
| Com_commit | 0 |
| Com_create_db | 0 |
| Com_create_function | 0 |
| Com_create_index | 0 |
| Com_create_table | 0 |
| Com_delete | 1715 |
| Com_delete_multi | 0 |
| Com_drop_db | 0 |
| Com_drop_function | 0 |
| Com_drop_index | 0 |
| Com_drop_table | 0 |
| Com_flush | 0 |
| Com_grant | 0 |
| Com_ha_close | 0 |
| Com_ha_open | 0 |
| Com_ha_read | 0 |
| Com_insert | 11439 |
| Com_insert_select | 206 |
| Com_kill | 0 |
| Com_load | 0 |
| Com_load_master_data | 0 |
| Com_load_master_table | 0 |
| Com_lock_tables | 0 |
| Com_optimize | 0 |
| Com_purge | 0 |
| Com_rename_table | 0 |
| Com_repair | 0 |
| Com_replace | 1617 |
| Com_replace_select | 0 |
| Com_reset | 0 |
| Com_restore_table | 0 |
| Com_revoke | 0 || Com_rollback | 0 |
| Com_savepoint | 0 |
| Com_select | 276127 |
| Com_set_option | 0 |
| Com_show_binlog_events | 0 |
| Com_show_binlogs | 0 |
| Com_show_create | 0 |
| Com_show_databases | 1 |
| Com_show_fields | 0 |
| Com_show_grants | 0 |
| Com_show_keys | 0 || Com_show_logs | 0 |
| Com_show_master_status | 0 |
| Com_show_new_master | 0 |
| Com_show_open_tables | 0 |
| Com_show_processlist | 2 |
| Com_show_slave_hosts | 0 |
| Com_show_slave_status | 0 |
| Com_show_status | 17707 |
| Com_show_innodb_status | 185 |
| Com_show_tables | 3 |
| Com_show_variables | 5 |
| Com_slave_start | 0 |
| Com_slave_stop | 0 |
| Com_truncate | 0 |
| Com_unlock_tables | 0 |
| Com_update | 46208 |
| Connections | 24075 |
| Created_tmp_disk_tables | 2674 |
| Created_tmp_tables | 23846 |
| Created_tmp_files | 0 |
| Delayed_insert_threads | 0 |
| Delayed_writes | 0 |
| Delayed_errors | 0 |
| Flush_commands | 1 |
| Handler_commit | 0 |
| Handler_delete | 4815 |
| Handler_read_first | 72296 |
| Handler_read_key | 6428094 |
| Handler_read_next | 7290462 |
| Handler_read_prev | 94958 |
| Handler_read_rnd | 1753452 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next | 22094380 |
| Handler_rollback | 2 |
| Handler_update | 68998 |
| Handler_write | 304271 |
| Key_blocks_used | 7764 |
| Key_read_requests | 15357619 |
| Key_reads | 87582 |
| Key_write_requests | 48354 |
| Key_writes | 28173 |
| Max_used_connections | 21 |
| Not_flushed_key_blocks | 0 |
| Not_flushed_delayed_rows | 0 |
| Open_tables | 48 |
| Open_files | 96 |
| Open_streams | 0 |
| Opened_tables | 6518 |
| Questions | 403356 |
| Qcache_queries_in_cache | 0 |
| Qcache_inserts | 0 |
| Qcache_hits | 0 |
| Qcache_lowmem_prunes | 0 |
| Qcache_not_cached | 0 |
| Qcache_free_memory | 0 |
| Qcache_free_blocks | 0 |
| Qcache_total_blocks | 0 |
| Rpl_status | NULL |
| Select_full_join | 663 |
| Select_full_range_join | 2446 |
| Select_range | 83542 |
| Select_range_check | 0 |
| Select_scan | 62848 |
| Slave_open_temp_tables | 0 |
| Slave_running | OFF |
| Slow_launch_threads | 0 |
| Slow_queries | 63 |
| Sort_merge_passes | 0 |
| Sort_range | 27174 |
| Sort_rows | 9531401 |
| Sort_scan | 30713 |
| Table_locks_immediate | 577050 |
| Table_locks_waited | 233 |
| Threads_cached | 0 |
| Threads_created | 24074 |
| Threads_connected | 2 |
| Threads_running | 1 |
| Uptime | 184238 |
+--------------------------+-----------+

8. i have a gallery running php as well
9. 15-50
10. www.pittspeed.com/test.php
11. I run IIS 6.0
12. what version of vB are you running ? 3.0.1

[AWS]

Add this to my.ini and restart mysql.

skip-locking
set-variable = max_connections=250
set-variable = key_buffer=32M
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16M
set-variable = sort_buffer=2M
set-variable = record_buffer=1M
set-variable = join_buffer=1M
set-variable = table_cache=1024
set-variable = thread_cache_size=164
set-variable = wait_timeout=1200
set-variable = connect_timeout=10
set-variable = max_connect_errors=10
set-variable = myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_size = 32M
query_cache_type = 1
skip-innodb

[IAMWhitey]

thanks much!

[eva2000]

also upgrade PHP to 4.3.8 as 4.3.7 is buggy :)