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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2022-01-24, 10:32

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I was reading about CPUs life expectancy being around 20 years due to tiny but cumulative use-wear stresses. There are some speculations that manufacturing process is directly tied to longevity of chips. Hardware around 486-Pentium era is just too robust to die from electron migration within …

Re: Is there Anyone "Overpaying" for Hardware and Proud of it? Well, maybe not Proud, but...

Posted on 2022-01-19, 10:13

not overpaying if 'market rates' are the average and i just wouldn't buy things like voodoo cards at all in fact i tend to buy cheaply, staying away once prices breach the middle point but overall there are times when i look back and think that while each item was cheap, in total was it really worth …

Re: Are we opening sealed copies of old games?

Posted on 2022-01-11, 09:01

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Einherje wrote on 2022-01-10, 12:47: What is your general stance on sealed copies of old games? Personally, I like to keep my boxed copies in good shape but prefer to see them used. sounds fine, enjoy the thing a sealed box may not always be 'new' - it could be resealed but then you wouldn't know …

Re: Intel has BIG plans.

Posted on 2021-11-25, 15:29

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You are so drunk on Western propaganda, it is sad to read what you just wrote. China is Taiwan's biggest export market, people go to work there, etc. People in West are fed propaganda daily and USA wants you to be scared of CCP because united China and Taiwan would create a country that is more …

Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-25, 11:18

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Interesting topic. I've often had similar thoughts about computing power vs code optimization. That ratio seemed closer together in the early days of x86 and even systems like the Comodore 64. Isn't assembly still the most efficient language? Inagine a company that codes for modern hardware in only …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-11-22, 10:37

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fallout 3 is good, at least it has lots to do. whatever criticisms i may have are minor compared to the wealth of things to do in the game and i'll admit i prefer it overall to fallout 1/2

Re: Are Acer fanboys a thing?

Posted on 2021-11-22, 10:32

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the idea of 'fanboy' type adoration of a company that makes things always strikes me as real strange, a sort of misplaced tribal tendency to hero worship or something, maybe a feeling of being part of a winning set of people (through the amazing collaborative act of .... buying something !) but some …

Re: most difficult game

Posted on 2021-11-15, 10:28

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if by manual you mean things with hard controls (QWOP!) and total twitch games then we can miss lots off the list also, presumably anything with bugs that break gameplay so that leaves all kinds of games none of which are the hardest, but all of whom can exist in the set of games that are really …

Re: GTA Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is not very good

Posted on 2021-11-15, 10:23

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as with most remakes, hd editions, 'enhanced' re-releases etc they are not really worth it, beyond the convenience of playing on whatever new platform they go with even when they are done well if nothing much new is added then it soon becomes the same game again, but with discernible leaves no the …

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