There are plenty of clever things that can be done to mitigate the resolution issue. One of course is higher resolution. I recall a 3d simulator at an arcade decades ago that did just fine with much lower resolution.
      For example look up some of the fake 120hz schemes in use (I think true motion 120 is one of them).
Another is of course the quality of the display units themselves, as well as any associated optics.
4k and 8k (esp. per eye!) would be great. But I think we're a bit off from single card solutions to drive that in 3d games. 4way sli/crossfire with the latest dual gpu cards and lots of fast ram could probably do it though.

Mycroft

Marketing would like to know gender. Eye color where visual identification matters (photo id's).

Dating sites.

I've seen women, genetically and mentally, who looked liked guys in drag. And guys who probably would have looked better in drag.
    So yeah the system can fail.

Mycroft

You mean just like you?

Also the fake sugars in diet soda are bad for brain function (can cause add like symptoms) and can trick you body into thinking it needs to store up energy. Diet sodas can actually cause you to gain weight.

Mycroft

A bug report that doesn't provide hardware configuration is in many circumstances less useful than one that does. bug reports that just say "it crashed when i did clicked on pretty icon" are useless, and should be ditched anyway. I'm more than familiar with the binning process, I even explained it to somewhere else in this article.
      Just because many (almost all after long enough) are binned below their actual limit doesn't mean they all are, and I've yet to see a part labeled 3.3 binned down to make more $$.
    The simple truth is you can't trust a software failure isn't caused by hardware as it is and adding in the uncertain joe random creates by oc'ing (many people oc the same way script kiddies hack) makes chasing those "bugs" down not worth the time you could be spending on tracking down real bugs.
      And if you think the only thing that can go wrong with an oc is heat, you're exactly the sort of person who's likely to introduce a subtle issue and blame it on the software. For reference I started modding C=64 when they were in their heyday. I've etched my own boards, soldered ram chips (not the current memory board we use in pc's now, actual DIP dram chips) and have my current cpu water cooled at stock speeds for stability.

Mycroft

Not entirely, or even mostly on mature designs on mature processes. Towards the end of a chip line nearly all chips are fully capable of the fastest setting.
    But few people will pay full price for the highest speeds and will pay less for slower so they deliberately set the speeds on some chips slower to optimize how many they sell at each price point and get the most $$.

Mycroft

Look around at local stores that sell pre-made pc's, the ones most people buy for home. The cheaper units are mostly AMD and most people buy the cheapest that works. A few buy to show off, but show off on things like monitor size or fancy wording or brand name.
    Neither care about specs important to most slashdoters.

Mycroft

Yes, people who OC should NOT send in bug reports except to the processor manufacture and should give detailed reports of their OC in that case.
    I've seen lots of weird bugs vanish when even "factory overclocked" parts are put back at stock settings.
    If I were you I'd post no bug reports if you oc anything policy.
    And I'd go through you bug reports and lable anything from an oc'r as "bug possible oc failure, will not investigate, closed".
      It's like someone who hot-rods his car screaming at shell about their gas because their car only gets 10mpg.

Mycroft

I would suggest using a desktop for these sorts of tasks if you can afford it. Though I can certainly understand if not. I have friend who's a pro photographer who went solo a bit over a year and a half ago and all she can afford is the laptop I donated her and the low to midrange desktop her oldest has.
    Laptops can't as cheaply afford the power for photo editing at the pro level.

Mycroft

This is the real issue. You can argue the high end and other minutia, but for most home users it's about doing fairly basic tasks without excess hassle and cost. CPU's have been more than good enough for web, movies and e-mail and occasional games for a long time now. And consumers mostly look at the out the door price for a pre-built system.

Mycroft

The motherboard is also a consideration, The CPU is not very useful without it.
    When I built my current primary system the Intel motherboards cost way to much for significantly fewer capabilities, I was able to get a motherboard that had the features I wanted cheaper than the closest I could get in Intel and take the savings to get a better CPU.
    If money is no object, and the feature set you need is available in Intel and you need the highest end per core performance, then sure buy that. In fact which is better is which is better for the usage case.

Mycroft

I've got a 18 month old 6core AMD processor and a $150 dollar Amd graphics card and games run just fine for the most part. There are a couple of places where if I turn all goodies all the way up on one or two where I might notice, but that's more the older graphics card and running things on the other two ( all 3 are 27", 1920x1080) monitors. There is a reasons the AMD and Intell are focusing more and more on power efficiency these days.

Mycroft

It's not faith to agree that the mostly likely explanation based on the evidence is the most likely explanation.

Mycroft