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# it's not my fault.
they keep making better stuff and I get scared I'm missing something.

I have 3 current working boxes on the network though so it's not like I'm constantly changing the one box. ( although I have just put 2 Nvidia 280's in SLI in this box )
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:16, archived)
# I'd better not say the kind of machine I'm wanting
as it might give you ideas and you could end up getting murdered off your wife

but anyway, did see a nice 16 Quadcore cpu board, tho it only took 64gb of ram (there was a 128gb one aswell)

I gave up working out how much it would cost to get when I hit around £50K for an incomplete system :)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:18, archived)
# well I've not long had my
quad core Phenom ( 3rd revision, after the fucked up ones were replaced ) and i'm happy with it. I don't do Intel and I'd rather not do Nvidia ( for reasons of bigotry ) but as ATI have been lacking in the gpu department recently and i was disappointed with my HD3870 crossfire setup I've plumped for the new 280's. Which are outstanding.

I know that AMD have a 12 core on the testbed that will blow Intel out of the water and as soon as it's on sale and economically feasible I'll probably build another box around that.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:26, archived)
# it's all going to get a lot more interesting
intel have been going on a big spending spree for folk with graphics tech knowledge starting about a year ago

who knows, they might come up with something that doesn't suck completely

as long as they don't all collude on price fixing too much something nice should happen :)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:36, archived)
# it's all going to be a huge waste of
money for the consumer in the next 2 years as it will be graphics on the CPU with aegia physics too after that. ( I have an aegia physics card )

I think I may have slowed down then. DX10.1 and shader 4.1 is cool for me for some time to come
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:38, archived)
# now that nvidia have taken over ageia things might take off a bit, depends what their plans are
but really the whole general multicore cpu/gpu thing is where it's at, aegia is just one system, nvidia no doubt bought it because they know that gpu based physics isn't quite there yet and they no doubt have a cunning plan

nvidia are providing the sdk for free without having to sacrifice a goat, that's an improvement from before
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 19 Jul 2008, 2:51, archived)