This is what happens when I take my eye off the ball.

[andrewducker]

Julie recently bought a desktop - and got a quad core processor, which I thought sounded pretty high end.

Until I just went and took a look at processors, and realised that you pretty much can't buy single-core CPUs any more - dabs has three uni-core cpus, versus thirteen dual-core and twenty one with 3 or 4 cores.

Desktops still seem to be maxed out at four-core - but I do wonder how much longer that will last, and whether there's much point scaling beyond that for most people, without something that uses that much CPU, and isn't heavily hard drive dependent.

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[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

Given that much hardware progression is powered by high-end use, such as games.

Which was the biggest contributor to my shiney new machine :) but the old one took an age to run simple stat program calculations, and the week it was being replaced, died, or at least I believe the motherboard died.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Speaking of games, we should really play some WC3 (if you're still playing it) and I can take you and Andy on.

2 vs 1? :)

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

It committed suicide as you were harshly replacing it after all those years of love - casting it aside for a shinier model!