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• • Senator McCain!! Salute!!

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    Originally posted by Par-Salian
    

    You can't possibly be referring to his speech in Ohio today?  His hopeful vision is to have our troops out by 2013?!?  Gee, only five more years of soldiers dying and pissing away our money in the fucking desert.  Great!

    It'll all be worth it, though, because McCain will have captured Bin Laden, built a democracy in Iraq, made North Korea and Iran good guys, stopped global warming, found the formula to turn lead into gold and made the first contact with friendly aliens. 

    Sounds like typical McCain telling voters what he thinks they want to hear.  Next week, he'll be saying something different to another crowd.

    Dream on, Republicans, dream on....

    
    Cause what voters want to hear is we are going to be in Iraq another 100 years, and we aren't going to get jobs back that went overseas.  I mean thats sure some damn good telling the voters what they want to hear.  Its not like Hillary or Barrack have been doing this since they started thier campaign.  He is simply stating clearly what he intends to do if he gets in the whitehouse.  All presidential candidates do that.

     

    If you looked at his reasons why he thinks we should stay in Iraq, it makes sense.  He doesn't want to belly up admit defeat and bring soldier home in an atmosphere similiar to Vietnam.  He also doesn't want to leave us vulnerable to potential backlash from extremists in the region and the negative image of pulling out.  It would be like telling the Extremists, they won by blowing up innocent civilians and they might win again if they try it over here.  Also he didn't say the fighting will continue for the next 5 years, but he hopes that it will end within his presidency.

  • Posted: 5/15/08 4:13 PM
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• • Any difference in these two graphic cards?

  • PNY is really in the workstation market.  Not sure how thier consumer grade graphics compare.

  • Posted: 5/15/08 12:08 PM
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• • New republican add campaign

  • Woo what a one-sided biased article.  I thought they didn't let closed minded individuals like that into the press.

  • Posted: 5/15/08 1:49 AM
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• • Desperate Need of Upgrade/brand new PC

  • Phenoms have thier place.  They may even play future games better then the E8400.  You have to remember most games are not optimized for multi-threading, especially at 4 cores.  With the E8400, and Q9700 you have several limitations that actually make Phenom an ideal choice.  1st is the lack of a Memory Controller.  Granted Nelhiem corrects this, without a memory controller it results in lower memory bandwidth.  No point going enthusiast if the FSB can't handle it.

    Also Phenom has a universal cache.  Right now it takes twice the cycles when the cache must be accessed, but it pays of on multi-threaded applications.  Where as the entire Intel Lineup must mirror cache data across its l2 cache, the Phenom can load similiar cache data in the l3 cache shrinking redundancy, but comes at the cost of double the cycles.  However, it beats having your l2 cache filling and needing to read from elsewhere.  Also Intel needs this technology in order to progress into 8 cores.

    The last couple years was rough for AMD, but they pretty much have passed that slump and have the basic architecture on what will propel them into the lead again.  Its also the ground work on Fusion which will substantially improve graphics rendering.

  • Posted: 5/14/08 10:47 PM
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• • Desperate Need of Upgrade/brand new PC

  • That Cyberpower one isn't too hot.  It is displaying the right stuff an Intel 8400, but under the hood its pretty limited.

    Here are the problem areas.

    430watt power supply.

    GeForce 8500.

    Vista Home.

    2 Memory Slots- Maximum of 4GB

    Realtek Audio.

    CyberPower Badge.

    You are going to get ripped off with it.  It has no real upgrade future.

    Also Newegg doesn't have good pre-builts.  They have good priced PC components though.  That and Newegg doesn't ship to Canada, which is why I went to Tigerdirect.ca first.

  • Posted: 5/14/08 9:18 PM
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