Recent content by WLlama

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    Microsoft to Focus on Windows 8 Starting July '10

    I think I'll stick to my minor releases.
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    Where is GPGPU?

    GPGPU computations are primarily for highly parallel applications. Unlike a CPU where you may be able to run a few threads at a time, CUDA/OpenCL (I'll use these ones as the example since you have a 295) are setup to take advantage of many thread executions on the same programming kernel. Any...
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    E6300 vs. E8200

    Thanks for the warning. I just doublechecked the specs again and the motherboard can support all single and dual cores in the LGA775 socket. No quad cores but I wouldn't want to spend the premium for a year's use anyway. :) Hopefully when I switch to i7 more software will be taking advantage...
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    E6300 vs. E8200

    Hey all, I'm looking to upgrade my P4 540 (3.2 GHz/800 FSB/1M L2) to either a Pentium Dual Core E6300 or a Core 2 Duo E8200. Since the E8200 has been around for a while, I can get a used E8200 for the same price I would expect to pay for a new E6300 (~$80 after tax and shipping). I'm only...