Intel Talks Hourglass Syndrome ''Computer Rage''

[jj463rd]

Me no,I just take a break and have a cup of coffee.

 

[ehanger]

Back before I built my first computer and was stuck using my moms Pentium 4 pos I kicked it a few times.

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]DjEaZy[/nom]... it's not because of CPU...[/citation]

It can be. Takes a measurable amount of CPU power to launch modern software.

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]woshitudou[/nom]Maybe moving from that old expensive dual core Intel to a faster 6 core AMD athlon can help[/citation]
why sic cores when most apps only utilize 2 cores

 

[jgv115]

If you have "Hourglass Syndrome" buy a SSD 😀

 

[bv90andy]

Even with my old athlon 2000+ i didn't have the syndrome.

 

[eddieroolz]

Yeah I have. Mostly with my laptop. I try to be fairly reasonable with the performance of my laptop, but when it acts weird - like reading the HDD constantly for no apparent reason, or windows freezing - then I get extremely aggravated.

 

[takeapieandrun]

Our iMac G4's from my middle school were so slow... I shudder thinking back to the days we had to use those.

 

[Guest]

Well, i'm happy with my Pentium 166 MMX. Has lots of RAM (64MB), a state of the art ATI 2MB PCI graphic card and an ISA sound card. It loads DOS games so nice... 😉 No lags playing Warcraft 2!

 

[Travis Beane]

I've seen both my roomy and brother hit my computer, and I immediately told them to get off.
The only computer related thing I hit was my last CRT, because the power button broke, and yet hitting it turned it on (died shortly after however).

 

[cjl]

I have to say, I no longer have hourglass syndrome thanks to Intel.

Not my CPU though. The biggest change in system responsiveness was the addition of my X25-M G2. That was a much bigger change than any processor swap.

 

[pryme]

Wow, I haven't seen that smash video since the late ninety's. When we had to distribute videos thru emails as attachments.

 

[hemelskonijn]

At work i tend to be very easy going and just wonder off to get some coffee since i take any break from the boring work i usually do. At home i tend to sweet talk to my computer. She is a she as long as she behaves and or i am trying to talk her up however when all is said and done she becomes a he and tends to get a smack to the side of his case or on the keyboard this rarely happens since sweet talking works better then hitting not to mention costs lets money repair wise.

 

[bin1127]

Unless your computer is really outdated, the problem is probably you and not some syndrome for advertising purposes. If your computer only runs lotus 123, then please rage away; rage at your life up till now as well.

 

[alyoshka]

Coming to think of it ..... 🙁 Yes, I've kicked and cussed my rigs earlier but truly, I didn't have a Phenom II or a SSD then...... now, I barely have to get hyped about it.
But the bigger draw back is, I don't suffer from the Hour Glass Syndrome with my rigs , at home or at work, it's rigs of my friends or then of their kids that drive me bats.....
So from the article I'm not sure if the syndrome is good or bad, being or getting frustrated with machines and beating the crap out of them is I guess far better than getting frustrated with other thing and beating the crap out of human beings right?

 

[anonymous_user]

I think the OS and software tends to be culprit behind performance issues on many computers. Using a lighter OS and having less startup items can significantly decrease boot and loading time.

 

[lashabane]

the second video seems like a douche commercial...

 

[Guest]

I too remember the last vid, it was called Bad Day loll.

 

[korsen]

Once in around 1994 or something like that my grandmother's 400mhz emachine had a perfectly working CD drive that for some reason would refuse all of a sudden to read discs. I happened to have a spare CD drive with me and it made me so mad that I ripped the power cord out of the computer, took it apart, ripped the drive out and literally danced on it until it was broken. My cousin still laughs to this day about it. I've also broken two cheap laser mice whose tracking capability became less than accurate. Another tidbit, in my parents house there used to be a basketball pole in cement in the ground that we dug up and pushed over. Before we had smashed it apart to throw away, I had become upset with the lack of traction in a ball mouse. Since I had done all I could to get it to work again (cleaning it thoroughly as possible) I decided I would feel better twirling it over my head and swinging it against the giant concrete ball at the base. It shattered into a million pieces of course, and for an extra laugh, a piece hit me in the face, making me even madder Enjoy that.

(nowadays hardware is just far too sensitive to hit, so it's just common sense to avoid that now, but back in the day, man could hardware take a beating and still run properly.)

Speaking of which! When I was a kid with my sega genesis, I would play wrestlemania arcade or something like that with Doink and Yokozuna and that one guy that had his hands turn into a metal mace or steel beam, (Lex Steele?/Luthor?) and so I was trying to get him to perform the move and he just wouldn't, and the game was so fast paced that I lost the tournament and proceeded to swear up a storm and smash my controller on the console. Eventually, the power button had lost the ability to remain depressed and I had to use tape to keep the console on and sometimes it would just turn off on me because the tape would come loose so I would just smash on it some more. Funny thing was, it never fully broke, and it always continued to work lol. My cousin has actually chucked his PS2 controller at his PS2 - kind of ridiculous but that plastic was damn sturdy.

Cheers!

 

[jerreece]

LOL

"...and your kids... if you have any."

 

[dEAne]

If you can't keep up then use your mind instead - most kids and even adults use a calculator in a computer solving simple arithmetic.

 

[razzb3d]

"I don't have the hourglass syndrome, I have ubuntu.

Seriously though, I haven't had a problem with my systems performance during actual work for the last half a year, the only thing that bugs me is how slow windows 7 starts up, not just the boot process, but, after it has initialized the windows manager/desktop environment, it still takes about 30 seconds to deal with the admin stuff. "

Cough"bullshit"cough.... I dual boot ubuntu 10.10 and win7 on a Compaq CQ61 and they both start just as slow. Ubuntu is a bit snappier post boot than windows..

 

[el_bastardo74]

never abused my peripherals, as they are all worth 400 bucks, and even though i have no problems on the hardware end, internet service can have its occasional moments...that's when i cuss a blue streak

 

[jkflipflop98]

I run a 980x 12Gb of DDR3 and 2 160 Intel SSDs. I don't see the hourglass anymore.

 

[apache_lives]

haha repairing ~50+ computers a week, im used to clients "buckets" (what we call there slow slow computers) being so slow its why i work with ~10 at a time - i can wait while repairing/testing another

the worst is machines like acers with 512mb ram, vista and norton - we look at it for a minute and think "f%#$ this" and test/inspect with ubcd4win etc