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This is *NOT* a CPU.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~wayrich...atx-case-1.jpg
*THIS* is a CPU.
http://www.hardwareoc.at/Prozessor/I...8400_small.jpg
I swear that if I read a single article on the internet again referring to the case of a PC being the "CPU", I might just lose it!!! :mad:
This thread is useless without links... :afrog:
Some everyday occurrences for me...
Customer "I need a new hard drive/modem/mainframe/server/box/cpu" *delete as appropriate*
Me "Don't you mean, you need a new computer?"
Customer "Er... yes"
Me *slap*
That doesn't look like a half bad CPU, either.
Yep. The E8400. :cool: 3GHz of Dual Core, 1333 FSB, 6MB L2 Cache processing power. :afrog:Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
I have an E8400. It is teh secksy
Settle down, Francis. :afrog:Quote:
Originally Posted by BillGeek
Yeah? Well.. I've got a Q9300.. quad core 2.5GHz, 1333 FSB, 6MB L2 cache... :afrog:Quote:
Originally Posted by BillGeek
:afrog:Quote:
Originally Posted by Arrow_Raider
Nice... :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
I sleep in a racing car.
I've always thought that language fell flat in this case. There is a name for the monitor, but there isn't a good name for the box. The name 'computer' won't really do, as to most people the computer is the name for the collection of components that includes even the mouse and the monitor. Few people order a new computer and expect to get only the box. In fact, we default to including the monitor in that term, as people rarely say "I bought a new computer and new monitor" and it is more common to hear, "I bought a new computer but kept my old monitor." Therefore, computer refers to different things in different sentences, which is not a recipe for good communication.
While I disagree with it, I am sympathetic to those who call the box the hard drive, especially if they are my age or older, as I remember when the hard drive WAS the box, and I remember when the monitor WAS the computer (only for personal computers, not mainframes).
Times have changed, but our language has not kept up.
There are lots of things that are misnamed by users. A lot of people mix up desktop and screensaver; they call the screensaver the desktop and the desktop the screensaver. Forward slash '/' and backwards slash '\' also get mixed up by users. I have even heard commercials on the radio that call the slashes in the product's URL backwards slashes. Eg.: "Visit us at w, w, w dot company dot com backwards slash product"
Someone in our office asked for a desktop replacement. When he got a new laptop he was most confused; re wanted a desktop to replace his broken computer :D
Indeed, nor is it a "base unit". It's just a computer.Quote:
Originally Posted by BillGeek
The last time someone asked me to help them fix their "base unit" I installed Solaris on it.
Hell I'm a programmer and the slash terminology still trips me at times. It all depends on how you define 'forward'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arrow_Raider
This can be forward if you start from the top: \ (the slash is swinging forward at the top)
This can be forward if you start from the bottom: / (when reading left to right, it appears to swing forward from the bottom)
But truth is the backward slash ( \ ) is really only used in folder paths. It is uncommon to see it anywhere else.
I can never keep those two straight, either. Of course, I'm not really left or right handed, so I often do things right handed as a mirror image of normal, so something with rotational symmetry does tend to trip me up.
i agree with the OP. it bothers me when people call the tower the CPU. it just doesn't make sense. but thats the world we live. people are uninformed.
The top of the slash in relation to which way the text is read determines forward or back. / leans forward, \ leans back.Quote:
Originally Posted by nemaroller
And \ is an escape character in C# and JavaScript, and probably a lot more than those two.
*cough* php *cough*Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
Nobody cares about that sorry attempt at a scripting language.
It does: CPU is an initialism of 'central processing unit' — in other words, the control unit to which peripherals such as the keyboard and display are connected.Quote:
Originally Posted by bflosabre91
But that usage only confuses.
It is really irritating that Windows uses the backslash as the path delimiter. Just the other day I was reading an article about Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) which seemed to imply that the delimiter in a queue path was \\. Then I read the code sample and it became clear that the author was escaping each backslash in the path, without mentioning this in the article body itself. (He was using C#, so use of verbatim literals would have eliminated the confusion, and saved me about ten minutes of head-scratching.)Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
For anyone interested: According to Wikipedia, the backslash was chosen for MS-DOS so that the forward slash could be used as the command-line option indicator, to retain compatibility with CP-M.
I lol'd.Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
Me too :D
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Originally Posted by timeshifter
The 9300 sucks in comparison to Q6600... locked multiplyer for the LOSE!Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
So in cultures where they read from right to left, the forward slash is actually the back slash?Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
As far as C#, I thank god every day for the @ operator.
Code:string folderPath = @"C:\thankyouuniverse\forthe@operator\forwhichyenameexcapesme\butsavesmefromperformingmonkeyprogramming\wheneeverIneedtouse\abackslashinafolderpath\"
Hay guise! Look at mah CPU!!
http://colins.tv/shop/images/TLA-436.jpg
*Runs like Linford Christie*
I have always known it as a 'tower' of course, they are getting smaller, so that name is going to be thrown out the window soon...Quote:
Originally Posted by BillGeek
I disagree. Get a full ATX tower. They're big.
Or get a Mini-ATX case. Like the one below:
http://www.biztoolbelt.com/uploads/2...1300-thumb.jpg
At the end of the day, there will be a market for both... until Microsoft Surface is cheap enough for home use... *drools*
The problem with that case is its' lack of size. The reason for my full ATX tower is four hard drives and two video cards. Needs more space.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
Same problem. The case I'm using has just enough space for everything, but given the graphics accelerator's size, it grealy reduces airflow... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
Is there any specific advantage to dual video cards? How many games are actually able to take advantage of that?
I know of a couple of games (crysis being one) that will function scweetly on SLI or X-Fire. The game doesn't require it as such, but let's just say: With my machine, I'll struggle to play crysis. :( At least I can play ANY other game max res and max detail at full FPS. (Excluding C&C3... for some reason this game slows down IMMENSELY when I have more than 200 juggernauts on the screen... :rolleyes: )Quote:
Originally Posted by Max
All games can take advantage of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaximilianMayrhofer
It simply is a bridge between the GPU's and the memories of both cards.
Though for excellent performance you need to finetune the settings, but for most games nVIDIA has done this already.
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone2_game.html
All games should get a performance boost, but a small few have glitches when using SLi. Spore is a recently released game that has graphically glitches when SLi mode is enabled. Textures don't map properly and some of the texture layers aren't visible. But Spore doesn't really have complex graphics, so it still runs very smoothly for me with SLi off. You can configure application specific settings, so I just have Spore marked to not use SLi. At least I don't have to manually toggle SLi on and off every time I want to play Spore. I'd be interested to know why Spore has the glitches with SLi enabled.
Spore is fun all the way until civilisation/space faring... :(
Sure, blame it on the tools.Quote:
Originally Posted by BillGeek
Four hard drives?? What are you trying to do? Download the internet?Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
And two video cards?? What are you trying to do? Render the internet?
I have 4 hard drives and 2 video cards. The reason for this should be very obvious. By bragging about my 4 hard drives and 2 video cards on forums, my e-manliness increases drastically.
http://www.vbforums.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by Arrow_Raider
I have 3 hard drives...
The first one is for the Vista Ultimate OS and most program applications.
The second hosts Windows Server 2008 - however, I don't boot 2008 much - and since Vista can easily access that drive - it more acts as storage for my photos and creating and editing home videos. These personal effects get backed up two external drives which are mirror copies of one another once a month.
The 3rd hard drive is where all my Vista Media Center recorded television goes (I can record some insane amount of television - like 300 hours - on the 'good' quality setting.) The third drive is decidated to this purpose, the optimization maintained by Vista Media Center, and thereby removing any fragmentation that would affect the OS if the television was on the OS drive.
And that machine is ALWAYS on... only because Linksys didn't include WOL functionality in their media extender that would be able to wake the PC up whenever someone wants to watch TV - the XBOX on the other hand does have this functionality.
Partitions or hard drives?
I personally don't really see the point for a seperate HDD for each OS. I can understand the benefit (if one goes down and destroys all the data on that drive, the others aren't affected), but the costs for me are personally not worth it.
My 4 drives are in a RAID 10 array.
Hard drives.
$100 for a SATA 300, 32mb buffer, 1 TB internal drive...
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...3210&CatId=139
Four hard drives, currently 5 partitions. When I stop being lazy, I'll do some reinstalling and wipe the extra partition... but the reason for my set of hard drives is performance. With XP installed on a 36gb Raptor, my boot times will be quite fast, which I like... file paging will go on my other 36gb Raptor, again for its' speed. All of my games and programs are currently installed on a 320gb 7200RPM drive, and all my music and videos and such is on the other one. Designed to split the read load without relying on striping and probable data loss.