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Phones, yawn. I guess this is news to 14 year old girls who spend all day texting.

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^ fixed. Trump tells it like it is, keeps it real. With Obama and Hillary, it's all propaganda and lies. Pulling a 40% improvement out of thin air...

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Default settings do not matter, except for software that comes pre-installed. If you are installing 3rd party software, it's understood and expected that...

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Sounds more like Obama's hope-n-change bullshit to me. We'll "change" the name to 8th gen, and you can "hope" it performs better...

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Not sure I follow your logic here.

Synthetic benchmarks are called "synthetic" because they use specialized software designed to...

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I guess someone has to buy their over-priced under-performing chips. For the rest of us, we'll go with 'Competitor A'....

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This makes no sense without referencing the specific Cray model(s) you had in mind. And they would have to be very old Crays indeed, from many years ago....

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Lol, what? Tell that to the customers who are paying me a premium to host their HP-UX apps on these servers. Many $Thousands in revenue per month. Sounds...

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FYI the freenas folks specifically recommend a platform with ECC memory support. I've got mine on an Opteron 4365 (about $25, ebay) and Supermicro H8SCM...

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Why? All my pc's at home, and all my servers at work are on DDR3. I even have a few racks of Itanium HP-UX servers on DDR2. All perform more than adequately....

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x2, its also way over-priced, anything more than $100 is overpriced and for rich people. These CPUs discriminate against everyday people with their privileged...

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I had not heard of 0 A.D. before, just looked it up and I intend to start playing it, so thanks for that.

Agreed on the whole upgrade...

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Disagree wholeheartedly. GNOME 3 is clunky and obtuse, completely unusable for day to day productivity work. They've slowly managed to work through...

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Which gaming sites are using the open source driver?...

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1080p video editing on phones and tablets is a thing, and even 4k video editing on the newest iPad is a thing. Mobile...

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Doom 2016, and Battlefield 1.

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I have cron jobs set that enable "latency-performance" profile during the hours when I typically use the computer, and "powersave"...

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Leisure Suit Larry does not require a 3D accelerator, neither does Kings Quest 3. Only these newfangled games that millennials play have this requirement....

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It was a Slot A. 700 Mhz ought to be enough for anyone. Lets be real, Gigahertz level computing is a luxury, not a necessity. People can find so many...

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Its too bad intel only makes processors for rich people and not average folks. $600 for a chip? I'm not in the market for stuff like this, I don't care...