Help me with CPU (AMD vs. intel), motherboard, SLI vs. XFire, etc...

Hit Deity on 31/5/2010 at 00:54

(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dearth)

I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. (Good) Advice (ie. pithy and useful) seems hard to come by these days... so I was using it in the context of:

Thanks, Bikerdude, for providing just the right amount of pertinent information that has been lacking in other circles. Your dearth of information was just what I needed. (Or: Your suggestions -- concise and to the point -- made my life a helluva lot easier!)

Damn, I'm only what, about 8 centuries behind in my semantics? Guess I'd better catch up! ;)

So, it meant exactly what I meant it to mean. Catch my meaning? :p

Al_B on 31/5/2010 at 09:53

Oh, I guessed the general gist of what you were saying. Normally I'd take "thanks to Bikerdude for the dearth of technical info and suggestions" as a sarcastic dig at someone who provided a lack of info and suggestions - which given his help actually the opposite to what you intended.

I'm sure he would have understood what you meant - I was just having a little jibe that in normal circumstances the sentence would have a different interpretation.

Hit Deity on 31/5/2010 at 14:48

Yeah, it's sad that he's gone, too, and I don't have his email. :(

I wanted to thank him.

Al_B on 31/5/2010 at 22:04

Has he gone? I noticed he hasn't been posting for the last few weeks, but I thought it may just be a regular break.

steo on 1/6/2010 at 00:37

I sure hope you got a CPU faster than 2.8MHz...

Hit Deity on 1/6/2010 at 05:26

Quote Posted by steo

I sure hope you got a CPU faster than 2.8MHz...

I don't think MHz makes as much difference, not like it used to and not in a strictly linear manner like it did in the past.

It ranks above a lot of CPUs rated at 3.0MHz, 3.4MHz, etc...

(http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html)

No, it's not as fast as some of the high-end Core i7s, but it's close enough for me (and I didn't want to spend a grand on a CPU!). $189 was just fine. ;)

Al_B on 1/6/2010 at 18:54

Don't pay steo any attention. He's just jealous because he's stuck with his 3kHz processor.

steo on 1/6/2010 at 19:52

I'll have you know I have a 3.74GHz penis... I mean processor, thank you very much.

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Renzatic on 1/6/2010 at 22:32

1.84 FuhguhduhHertz

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