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Maybe i'm just too old skool (and a mac fanboy) but I never understood why people need to cram 2 cores into one processor. I'm perfectly all set with having two processors, but then again, most windows apps don't know how to use more then one core that well yet. And maybe i'm a n00b or something, but when there are more cores in one processor, won't the front side bus have to be greatly increased to handle 4x cores?

Say there's a 1ghz FSB and a quad-core processor, will it have to split it so that each processor receives 250mhz? Or will windows not even bother to use the other cores until it has to really beef out some work, and then when it has to, it will be choking itself. Well things to say:

1.Think of the price it will have when it comes out...

2.Think of the problems it may have since its still on a testing state...Even if they test milions of them per day problems may not occur but remember what happened to PS3?it started with blue ray and 3 days after the Version1(blue ray version) release it got back to the labs to get a DVD on it(Version2)...

3.Do you really need it?I mean there are people still using CPUs under 1GHz...I was one of them 7 months ago.So what if you get a Core 2 Quadro?

In my opinion just wait till mahine and products come to a same height...Now,with the Core 2 Quadro release the mahine is WAY too faster than needed!Which program WONT run on such a machine even 2 years later?... Just think about it...

On the other hand there are people who will buy Core 2 quadros just to brag about em...The"I got better than you"guyz...Im sure you know em.

Hope i helped. robotclaw Maybe i'm just too old skool (and a mac fanboy) but I never understood why people need to cram 2 cores into one processor. I'm perfectly all set with having two processors, but then again, most windows apps don't know how to use more then one core that well yet. And maybe i'm a n00b or something, but when there are more cores in one processor, won't the front side bus have to be greatly increased to handle 4x cores?

Say there's a 1ghz FSB and a quad-core processor, will it have to split it so that each processor receives 250mhz? Or will windows not even bother to use the other cores until it has to really beef out some work, and then when it has to, it will be choking itself.

Well, you'll note that the Core 2's have much higher amounts of cache memory and higher memory/bus speeds... Also, current AMD processors don't use a front-side bus. Sharing a die also has the obvious benefit of shorter data paths between CPU cores, shorter paths to cache memory, and lower complexity motherboards.

Multithreading single applications isn't really the main draw of multiprocessing (yet), if you ask me. I like being able to run high CPU intensity applications and not have to worry about doing other things in the meantime. Windows' preemptive multitasking method works alright until you get multiple applications running at the same time that take a lot of memory/CPU cycles. That's where the second core is nice to have.

natsumemaya That depend cause next year AMD will surely launch their new processor replacing K8 until that day comes I will wait cause AMD known for memory integrated thing and of course for power consumption as well

Arguably, they're not really replacing the K8 - it's more of a major revision. The K8-L is basically to the Athlon64 what the Core2 is to the Pentium-M. Though, just going by that logic, I think it's safe to say that the K8-L is going to be extremely fast. I will certainly not buy them when they come out...they are simply too new... -they will b expensive -they take hells power and generate hells heat.. -i want to wait for the efficiency to improve and for the tech to settle in for a while -many of today's programs are not optimized for that many threads (if you look at quad-core game benchmarks you will notice that gaming benefit is minimal) ... well rendering and stuff like that is improved signficantly...but hell if i care about that...

Intel seems to have a pretty good advantege right now but... I am looking forward to see what AMD does with ATI in the future though...maybe high-end integrated graphics won't be an oxymoron in the future...

I really love Utada's music xD Shes one of my favorite artists. I first got into her music back when I heard Simple and Clean, then got on Kazaa and Imesh and downloaded many of her songs (and got a copy of her Colors CD) It took me till late last year to find her Exodus CD in a store XD

My favorite songs by her are probably the remix of Final Distance (just called DISTANCE), First Love, Movin' On Without You, Devil Inside, and her remakes of Fly Me To The Moon and Close to You.

Well things to say:

1.Think of the price it will have when it comes out...

2.Think of the problems it may have since its still on a testing state...Even if they test milions of them per day problems may not occur but remember what happened to PS3?it started with blue ray and 3 days after the Version1(blue ray version) release it got back to the labs to get a DVD on it(Version2)...

3.Do you really need it?I mean there are people still using CPUs under 1GHz...I was one of them 7 months ago.So what if you get a Core 2 Quadro?

In my opinion just wait till mahine and products come to a same height...Now,with the Core 2 Quadro release the mahine is WAY too faster than needed!Which program WONT run on such a machine even 2 years later?... Just think about it...

On the other hand there are people who will buy Core 2 quadros just to brag about em...The"I got better than you"guyz...Im sure you know em.

Hope i helped.

When the CPU comes out you have some work to do .... Checking Benchmark and opinions and reviews

And you can See some sites like this one :http://www.tomshardware.com/

To reach the better CPU: and make the better choise

Fer performance issues always check this if you haven't before start -> run -> msconfig its your friend, alot of performance sinks come due to to many apps and usless junk trying to startup and run constantly with your computer (like who really needs half the junk that starts up with your comp like quicktime an adobe speedlauncher (which makes adobe take even longer to startup most times lol), even alot of windows services are usless for most everyday things)

use msconfig and like http://www.windowsstartup.com/ or one of the other good pages to help clear it out (that is unless you know what half them are for, which isn't that hard by looking where there usually located)

ARCHFIEND No. SPYWARE ITS MY NIGHTMARE. I HATE SPYWARES AND I THINK ITS A MENACE OF THE ALL DAYS IN THIS PLACE CALLING INTERNET. WHY DONT HAVE A SUPER-ANTIVIRUS TO DESTROY ALL SPYWARES? WELL I THINK THE CREATORS OF ANTIVIRUS AND ANTISPYWARES HAS THE CREATORS OF THE SAME. WELL,IF DONT EXIST THE VIRUS AND SPYWARES THE ANTIVIRUS DONT NECESARY,YOU DONT THINK?

indeed there's likely some kind of consiracy lol, its like hackers...big multi-million dollar companies hire hackers all the time, to purposely hack there systems to know where there vulnerabilities lie, not so they know how to get into the systems, but so they know what to do to help protect the systems for future use. but at the same time because password tools, sniffers and the likes are used for this, they somehow always tend to get out into the public masses.

i'm sure there's some type of this going on with spyware / virus creators, tho then again there's all kinds of little snots out there that love causing trouble to these days lmao

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Well . . . my first album was a tape. Guns and Roses : Appetite for Destruction. It was a gift from my sister. It was lame then, and it's lame now. She was worried about me because I liked to listen to jazz and blues like my father. I guess tight leather pants and screeching like a woman in pain made you cool back then. The first album I bought voluntarily was the tape of John Lee Hooker : the Healer. All I know is, every time someone comes over to my house . . . no matter what kind of music they listen to . . . they can't resist that smooth old groove. Two weeks later, I go to their place and they are listening to a new CD of some kind of jazz. Careful not to get your kids hooked on this stuff some day. They'll probably start wanting to hang out with those cool kids and stay out all night. (^.^)

Regards, Aaron

Yes, I like rock. My favorite bands? Let me think...

(in the order that I saw the CD cases on the shelf) Nine Inch Nails Tool A Perfect Circle Stabbing Westward Evenescence (My favorite song is from before the Fallen CD came out) Nightwish Disturbed Breaking Benjamin Green Day System of a Down Barenaked Ladies Rammstein Linkin Park Metallica (see below) Deftones

JP Plastic Tree High and Mighty Color Olivia Pierrot Antic Cafe Orange Range Hyde Asian Kung-Fu Generation The Pillows Flow

USA Tonic Breaking Benjamin Jimmy Eat World Bad Religion Gorillaz(rock?) Incubus Hoobastank Fallout Boy The Foo Fighters Live

I really like the old Metallica, but the new Metallica sucks big floppy donky di<k! It's not even the same band anymore since there is only one member of the original band left. They should just change the name already and stop disgracing the good name of Metallica.

Anyway, I like other bands too, but the rest don't really fit into the category of "favorites."

I think most say VII is the best because it brought the FF series, as well as RPG's in general, to a whole new level. You could call it the father of modern RPG's. Yes, in retrospect, it's not the best looking game out there, and it has its faults, but at the time, it was a good as they got (general opinion).

I think a lot of people who say X is the best do so because of the graphic superiority (PS2 > PSX), and the fact that it has spoken dialogue, which adds much more to the feeling of the game and in some cases, your emotional attachment to it (I don't know if anyone out there is considering XII to be "the best" yet).

Now, that said, I'll take a cue from how ArakawaTakeshi put it:

Graphics: Gorgeous graphics, stunning visuals, I give this one to FF X. Story: Need I say it? FF VII

The best Final Fantasy series would be FFVII. But, the 1 minus point of this game is the graphic. Since it's the first 3D based graphic in FF series. I also played FF 1,2,4,6,10,10-2, and 12. I found that FF X and X-2 is superior because of their graphic, since it's PS2. The better platform maching, you got better graphic quality. Playing FFXII is just like watching movie. I totally enjoyed playing FF VI. It has great storyline. So many characters, and normal battle system. But since the graphic is still 2D, you can't really compare with other game graphics nowadays. FF7 has a great storyline and the gameplay is really fun. I love to play with the materia and combine it to get many effects. The graphics aren't the best, but I don;t care since the gameplay, story and characters are good enough not to bore me. XD

FFX has as well nice story, interesting story...I like that the aeons have many abilities which is different from the games before FFX. The graphics are really nice, it's a real improvement comparing to the preceding games. The gameplay it's the best in my opinion. I like the sphere grid system because you have many possibilities, so many abilities that your characters can learn. The characters are interesting too, though I don;t really like them all...

PS: I forgot to mention, the OST of FFX is great too!!

Music: Beating out Vi by a hair, FF VII. Overall: VII Honorable Mention: VI - SUPERB FF

I've thoroughly enjoyed every FF I've played, so I'm sure not going to say any sucked (though I haven't played X-2 or XII yet). So while I haven't mention say, V or IX, it's not because I disliked them.

Two interesting articles (Google if you need to read more, they basically all say the same; most reviews on big game review companies will mention each other in the review to compare.)http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/12/graphics_resist.htmlhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=10903

But it's all a matter of opinion I suppose, the wii has proven you don't need an amazing system to win the consumers heart (since they are outselling everyone).

I think you should review some of your plus and minuses, a better break down would be like this

PS3 Plus- Higher end technology, get alot of bang for your buck, technicaly the most advanced system Minusees- Losing several key exlusives (Virtua fighter 5, Possibly MGS4 are going multiplatform), the most expensive system, online support is iffy right now, having serious issues with ahrdware defects and shortages

Wii Plus- innovative controls, strong first party games, cheaper than the rest, as of now it has what is arguably the best game of the year (Zelda: Twilight Princess has been doing amazingly well reviews wise and it has been wining several game of the year awards), the virtual console is promising Minuses- Least powerful, graphics wise; third party support is still up in the air as is online support

Xbox 360 Plus-Year head start means the developers are better at designing the system, cheaper than the Ps3, easily the best online support, some great games already out (gers of war, ghost recon, rainbow six), has stolen some PS3 exlusives lately (GTA, Virtua Fighter, possibly MGS4), decent price Minuses-You have to pay to go online, no motion control (though that may not be such a big issue for many people), has a tendency to heat up a bit though I dont know if other consoles have this issue

Personaly, I am going to go with the Wii/360 combo. I already own a 360 and I'm quite happy with it and I would love to get a wii as well. So far the only games that I want for the ps3 are FF13 and MGS4. One of those might be heading for the 360 as well and as for FF13, FF12 left a bad taste in my mouth so im not as excited for it as I once was

Be it that I was a bit of a beta tester for Vista, I hated it. I didn't run into any major bugs, but I found an annoying one during the beta phase (which I'm sure was fixed for RTM). There's no real improvements with Vista besides making some of the interfaces harder to navigate and having to deal with a ton of pop-ups just to run a single EXE file. Heck, some of the more popular games may not even run on Vista, like the Battlefield series and I've heard Halo didn't work either. The Aero style is crap, sorry to say. But seriously, it really is and I don't want to look at it again. The sidebar is next to useless, even though it had a couple useful gadgets on it, but that's what it was all good for. The motion desktop (some of you may have heard of it), is more than likely going to run up your system resources even further than the Aero Glass does. I can't test this out since Vista no longer works on my system for some unknown reason.

Also, to point out, no one is going to buy a whole new computer just to support Vista's insane requirements. The bare minimum may just run out your wallet pretty quickly. And the $250 asking price for Ultimate just isn't really worth it for now. Sure, my system that I hope to build will support Vista, but there is no way I'm going to put that OS on there, one for the bugs that could creep up, and two, since I don't feel like messing with it's security settings to make those pop-ups to run a single EXE file that will quickly drive me up the freakin' wall 10 times over just to shut them up. (yes, they are that annoying)

In other words, I don't like Vista, it's just not worth it, and it could tick a lot of people off very quickly. (dang that was a lot to say for one OS...)

Oh, it's balut!! I actually tasted one (it's one of my favorite food, actually) and it tasted really good, especially the yolk ^^

• Glasses + Fix hair = Cool

Honestly, almost anyone can look "good". Mess your hair up a bit, get some nice looking shirts etc (not T-shirts mind you) and add some confidence (important amongst the girls), stuff like that. Trust me, such small things can do wonders

how much did the tv in the living room cost and how many inches is that ?

Wow.. so cool ^ ^

The best Dragon ball is the first when goku is a little boy. I treminds me when I was little little too. but then all that last too long become bad like Dragon ball and pokemon and digimon and the Simpson.