Tom's Hardware's Biggest CPU Shoot-Out, Ever

[Moonrise]

pointless

 

[icebain]

Great article lol. Made my morning!

 

[Glorian]

Looks like i just read a mythbusters episode.

 

[MU_Engineer]

[citation][nom]MISRy[/nom]Kerosene cleans the cosmoline off the steel nicely, the wood just has to sweat. Surprised CA allowed the bayo. Thanks for not showing a CA legal AK. Send me some chips and I can add 7.62x25 ChiCom steelcore and 8mm Turk to the list. I have to drive about 300 miles to do the .50 but if you want to wait till summer I can do one of those too.[/citation]

I'm surprised the editors didn't put a slug barrel on the Winchester 1300 and fire slugs at the chips. If you want to talk about punching huge holes, a .50-caliber 380 gr. to 437 gr. jacketed hollow-point sabot slug fired from a 12-gauge will do just that, plus they're legal in the Land of Fruit and Nuts as far as I can tell. If they're not, send one my way and I'll do the honors!

 

[Craxbax]

Congratulations! You and THG have just been added to the US 'No Fly' list! LOL

 

[bfstev]

damn it would have been sweet to see a barrett 82A1 rip through that if you weren't in callifornia. also i doubt that .22 would have actually pierced the heat spreader if it was working.

AMD can now claim to be benchmarked on the riflerange. Intel better step up!

it would have been cool to see it rip through the stock cooler for those chips too.

now we just need to do this with a hdd test

 

[bounty]

awww, no 7.62 x 54R ? Pick up a Nagant when you get a chance, they're cheap. If you get the carbine, you might even notice a large flame/shockwave. If you get the M91, well it's nice to have a rifle that's almost as tall as you with the bayonet attached. Plus it will take much less than 100 rounds to bruise your shoulder.

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]bounty[/nom]awww, no 7.62 x 54R ? Pick up a Nagant when you get a chance, they're cheap. If you get the carbine, you might even notice a large flame/shockwave. If you get the M91, well it's nice to have a rifle that's almost as tall as you with the bayonet attached. Plus it will take much less than 100 rounds to bruise your shoulder.[/citation]

The guy with the Nagant that I invited out that day got called in to his job and couldn't make it--otherwise we would have had one!

 

[ph3412b07]

Thats it, next time I go to an electronics dump day I'm scavenging every old CPU and building myself a bulletproof vest. Might come in handy airsofting too.

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]Chaohsiangchen[/nom]I'd prefer that they'll be shooting products from Apple Inc. and taking motion picture with high speed camera.[/citation]
Seconded.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

Hilarious (and educational 😛) article TH! Nothing like guns and CPU's eh?

 

[zuke]

Awesome article! You had some sweet hardware there, especially the FAL. I haven't shot one of those in 20 years...

 

[nerrawg]

Great april fools article THG- love the extensive gun collection and it definitely looked like a good way to satisfy an appetite for destruction!!!

If only some people (mostly women) knew how much innocent fun guns can be ... not to mention shooting things and seeing how they break or explode. Of course I've never tried CPUs, don't have that much money to blow. But on a budget rotten watermelons from your local grocery, or shaken soda cans heated on the car radiator for good measure, make a delightfully entertaining targets. A guilty pleasure I might add, probably because of all the news stories about people on shooting sprees and such and it is too bad those people have to ruin it for us (in the UK) because its so much fun. I would gladly have my retina's scanned, fingerprints taken, DNA PCR'ed and be psychologically evaluated by a panel of experts for the liberties I had in the US or Norway - I miss my Ruger Super Blackhawk with 4x optics - 100 yards flat - try it!

 

[hurbt]

And you guys claim not to be biased toward intel...

 

[sot010174]

You should have shot some Macs and some Win vista boxes.

 

[wildgene789]

why hollow points? y not FMJ

 

[Guest]

LOL i'll give you guys a hint some Opterons are not really Opterons haha

 

[cruiseoveride]

so many poor processors. had no chance against the 39mm.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]sot010174[/nom]You should have shot some Macs and some Win vista boxes.[/citation]
Why shoot both the villan and the hero ? that'd leave the world with only the sociopath (linux)

 

[cangelini]

[citation][nom]wildgene789[/nom]why hollow points? y not FMJ[/citation]

Hollow points make more of a mess, and our shooter likes messes. With that said, a majority of rounds were jacketed. The only HPs were the 9mm, .45 ACP, and 7.62x39mm (SKS).

 

[bedheadjc]

Kudos on a great job correctly representing and writing about the firearms involved. I can't tell you how often I wince when I read a piece of media, whether web or print, where the author states that a criminal used an "22mm automatic revolver" or an "AR-15 machine gun", etc. You know enough about the subject to at least sound like you do; much more so than you average scribe.

 

[Guest]

Great article. Maybe AMD and Intel should send defective cpus to GM to install on Humvees as armour.

So what are the targets for the next shootout? Graphics cards maybe.

 

[sandrodmiguel]

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[sandrodmiguel]

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[sandrodmiguel]

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