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<rants>
What is it about performance? Gaining an extra 10% in benchmarks. Whipty doo ... upgrading every 3 months to gain that extra edge.
Think about all of your hard earned cash being wasted just to earn 10% more performance. Spend another 300 bucks on mobo, ram, and new amd chip. With my experience i only did that because the chipset was crap. From the MVP3 to kt133. The AMD 761 i didn't have a problem with that was mostly gigabytes POS board i am starting to believe. so everytime i go and fork up another 300 bucks. Cha-ching! Just because I wanted another 10% performance increase.
There were other factors too ... such as incompatible via chipsets and crappy designed boards and i wanted to help people own a computer themselves. But that only gave me an excuse to go ahead and gain that extra 10%!
Now i'm 24. I have a lot of work to do. I have a lot of things i want to do. I have this partnership for a business going on. And you know what? it has come to a point where i can't afford 300 bucks just for a 10% improvement and "bug" fixes. So i said, screw it fork up the extra cash, spend 500 instead of 300 for a different platform and hope it'll work better. Less excuses to upgrade the better your wallet is.
All in all i've spent over 1000 bucks in the past 3-4 years on upgrading my computer just for a 10% increase in performance. Mainly the mobo, cpu and ram. Back then i would have spent that much on a Intel system lol. But, would it have worked and saved me the frustrations?
The point of this ranting is, save your money. You're gonna need it when you hit 24! It's one thing to buy new parts because you need it for an application you wanna do, or because the computer can no longer function to meet your needs, but just for the sake of gaining 10% increase in performance. It's a waste of money. Unless you got money to burn. Like income tax return. Or, because you are rich and you whipe your butt with 20 dollar bills.
Not saying anything really. Just ranting of where all the money goes. Maybe this is an addiction of power. Always wanting the fastest thing ever just for power. Is it healthy? Is it healthy to want all the power for a cheap cost? Is power even necessary? Now is upgrading your computer necessary?
Just think that the money could be best spent elsewhere and i'm wondering if this "computer hardware hobby" is nothing more then another power hungry desease?
Oh trust me i'm completely guilty of this. Hence why i'm thinking and enlightening myself as to why i keep spending money on my computer.
I think it should be seriously looked into for pscyhological effects and long term problems. Such as social problems, problems interacting with other humans, problems with relationships, and whatnot.
There might be a link... or maybe not. Why do we upgrade again? And, what's the point? Maybe we should focus our income on other things. Like beer and pot and social events. Perhaps a better larger TV for football games and party invites. Bigger better grill to cook those huge steaks on ... *shrugs* ... more human interaction too would be nice along with saving some cash. Too much email and hiding behind a computer eh? maybe we should get out our pogo sticks and start a pogo game! Much cheaper then upgrading our computer every 3 months and you would have more fun playing pogo! whatever pogo is ... sounds like fun anyway ... but you still get the point ... dontchya?
</rants>
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by xxsk8er101xx on 08/12/02 02:27 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
What is it about performance? Gaining an extra 10% in benchmarks. Whipty doo ... upgrading every 3 months to gain that extra edge.
Think about all of your hard earned cash being wasted just to earn 10% more performance. Spend another 300 bucks on mobo, ram, and new amd chip. With my experience i only did that because the chipset was crap. From the MVP3 to kt133. The AMD 761 i didn't have a problem with that was mostly gigabytes POS board i am starting to believe. so everytime i go and fork up another 300 bucks. Cha-ching! Just because I wanted another 10% performance increase.
There were other factors too ... such as incompatible via chipsets and crappy designed boards and i wanted to help people own a computer themselves. But that only gave me an excuse to go ahead and gain that extra 10%!
Now i'm 24. I have a lot of work to do. I have a lot of things i want to do. I have this partnership for a business going on. And you know what? it has come to a point where i can't afford 300 bucks just for a 10% improvement and "bug" fixes. So i said, screw it fork up the extra cash, spend 500 instead of 300 for a different platform and hope it'll work better. Less excuses to upgrade the better your wallet is.
All in all i've spent over 1000 bucks in the past 3-4 years on upgrading my computer just for a 10% increase in performance. Mainly the mobo, cpu and ram. Back then i would have spent that much on a Intel system lol. But, would it have worked and saved me the frustrations?
The point of this ranting is, save your money. You're gonna need it when you hit 24! It's one thing to buy new parts because you need it for an application you wanna do, or because the computer can no longer function to meet your needs, but just for the sake of gaining 10% increase in performance. It's a waste of money. Unless you got money to burn. Like income tax return. Or, because you are rich and you whipe your butt with 20 dollar bills.
Not saying anything really. Just ranting of where all the money goes. Maybe this is an addiction of power. Always wanting the fastest thing ever just for power. Is it healthy? Is it healthy to want all the power for a cheap cost? Is power even necessary? Now is upgrading your computer necessary?
Just think that the money could be best spent elsewhere and i'm wondering if this "computer hardware hobby" is nothing more then another power hungry desease?
Oh trust me i'm completely guilty of this. Hence why i'm thinking and enlightening myself as to why i keep spending money on my computer.
I think it should be seriously looked into for pscyhological effects and long term problems. Such as social problems, problems interacting with other humans, problems with relationships, and whatnot.
There might be a link... or maybe not. Why do we upgrade again? And, what's the point? Maybe we should focus our income on other things. Like beer and pot and social events. Perhaps a better larger TV for football games and party invites. Bigger better grill to cook those huge steaks on ... *shrugs* ... more human interaction too would be nice along with saving some cash. Too much email and hiding behind a computer eh? maybe we should get out our pogo sticks and start a pogo game! Much cheaper then upgrading our computer every 3 months and you would have more fun playing pogo! whatever pogo is ... sounds like fun anyway ... but you still get the point ... dontchya?
</rants>
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by xxsk8er101xx on 08/12/02 02:27 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
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