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RE[3]: Inefficient use of capital
by helf on Wed 10th Sep 2008 23:14
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RE[3]: Inefficient use of capital
by Laurence on Thu 11th Sep 2008 08:58
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RE[3]: Inefficient use of capital
by bnolsen on Fri 12th Sep 2008 20:22
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I used to have this board too.
The capacitors were crap and leaked all over the place after a couple of years. I did a capacitor replacement job but the board never was stable again.
Anyways... As a developer 8 cores are AWESOME. Building applications can very efficiently use all 8 cores, building one object file per core.
Also as a developer you start to notice when your own applications aren't using all 8 cores and it's kind of annoying.
Basically all developers should have SLOW machines with 8 cores (I use an 8 core 1.6GHz setup).
Last machine I bought from dell in march this year with 8GB ram for just under $1250 shipped. That's without MS tax.
Edited 2008-09-12 20:25 UTC
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2007-10-26
I was a happy owner of an Abit bp6 mobos with the 2 x Celeron hack. Needless to say, in '99 multithreading was Star Trek. I remember ripping mp3:s on it and was annoyed that the encoder completely ignored the extra CPU.
So i made a script that started more than one encoder in parallel.
Edited 2008-09-10 22:59 UTC