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PizzaJoe writes "Want to build a powerful quad-core system for less than $1,500? Want a system that scores 5.3 on the Windows Experience Index without tweaks (with scope for hitting much closer to the magic 5.9)? Hardware 2.0 shows you how:

Four cores, each running at 2.4GHz, 8MB of L2 cache, blistering speed ... what more is there to say?! Sure, I could have spent more money and got a faster processor, but it wouldn't have been all that cost effective.

At the heart of this project is a Q6600 processor and an ASUS Striker Extreme motherboard. Complete parts list available here."

With the advent of the firehose, I figured that Slashdot would continue to have the same types of news stories, just more often. I've also always enjoyed the comments on Slashdot that contained intelligent thoughts, as opposed to certain other sites of a similar design. Now I'm worried about the direction Slashdot is headed in. While it would seem the editors' jobs would be easier, cases of poor editing still abound, useless stories are promoted seemingly on a whim by the kdawson account, and even the beloved comment system is overloaded with new mods who seem to promote useless comments.

I'm curious as to how the Slashdot community overall feels about this, are you experiencing the same doubts as I am? Should something be done about this? Perhaps rules should be set in place so that one must be a member for a certain period of time before submitting stories to the firehose?