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Comment Re:Is Intel circling the drain? (Score 1) 64

It makes way more sense design wise. I just wonder how long it will take them to be able to change over to that.

My current rig is an old X5460 on a modified 771 motherboard. All of these hotfixes for Spectre/Meltdown etc have noticeably lowered the FPS I get on this thing. I'm going to pay some debt off and see about getting a Ryzen 5 3600 system next year.

Comment Re:Its really not surprising.. (Score 1) 73

AliExpress is flooded with LGA 2011 and 1356 systems right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Videos like that are helping move product of course.50 bucks for a 2689 with 8C 16T. Hell, a lot of the sellers are offering bundles where for ~$200 you get CPU, motherboard, 32 GB of quad-channel RAM, and a CPU cooler.

Comment Re:And, I might start buying more from them again. (Score 1) 183

Not to mention if you buy from the Walmart site you're going to get the actual thing you ordered. Not a "maybe it's real maybe it's a cheap knockoff that they allowed into their warehouse".

If you bought, oh let's say a 128 GB usb flash drive. If you bought it and got one of those "4 GB of real storage and then it overwrites itself over and over" fakies, Walmart would apologize and give you a proper one (and then investigate to figure out how the hell that happened).

Comment Re:This is starting to happen in a lot of places.. (Score 1) 70

>>Actually, it's because they want their staff to actually work. Not mindlessly gossip over instant messenger with their mates.

THIS.

I used to work for a company that used MSN Messenger as an in-house communications tool. They'd use your company email to make you an account, etc.

You were only supposed to add people on your immediate team, and supervisors (up to 2 levels above you). They canned the idea when a large number of people had every single co-worker on theirs and just IM'd them all day long.

Comment Re:First rule of journalism. (Score 1) 240

That's the problem. Your average user does what with their computer? Facebook, YouTube, types something up on Microsoft Office, checks their email, etc. My father got a hell of a deal on a laptop with an AMD A6 APU in it. It flies through everything he gives it to do, because, he uses it for tasks like I listed above. Sure, there will always be high-end high-requirement people wanting 8k 8X antialiasing in their games and 120+ fps for their freesync monitors etc, but... probably 80 - 90% of users couldn't care less. Even today, you could give your average user a Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad from 2008 and it would laugh at any tasks they gave it to do.

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