The Official "What i got for Christmas" thread

lgolem · Post by **lgolem** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:38 pm

Fluffyumpkins wrote: My phat lewt?
I got a few nice bottles of wine from California and Italy.
A bottle of plum wine.

My girlfriend also got me:
A flask with my initials on it.

So how many holes will be in the wall by next j-night.....3 maybe 4?

SoDeepPolaris · Post by **SoDeepPolaris** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:40 pm

I got:
-Shun Santoku 6.5" (lefthand)
-Emergency car light
-$355
-A couple Threadless shirts
-Adidas Marathon TR Mid's (baby blue, red, navy, yellow logos)
-A buttload of music
-Socks
-$15 Walmart gift card
-Some veggie cookbooks and a collection of grilled cheese recipes (which is bomb)
-A ton of candy
-Perry Ellis 360

And I decored some anti-rockers. Yay.

Cbav · Post by **Cbav** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:31 am

SoDeepPolaris wrote: -Socks

I'm pretty sure it's not possible to endure a Christmas without unwrapping new socks. haha

Either that, or the sweater you get from family members from distant states that always seem to be either way to big or way too small.

Fluffyumpkins · Post by **Fluffyumpkins** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:39 am

Riot wrote:I just bought this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143071

yum much?

It'll be wasted on Counter Strike.

the gattchoon · Post by **the gattchoon** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:46 am

Cbav wrote:
SoDeepPolaris wrote: -Socks
I'm pretty sure it's not possible to endure a Christmas without unwrapping new socks. haha

Hey, there's nothing wrong with new socks. Especially fuzzy ones. X)

Riot · Post by **Riot** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:01 am

Fluffyumpkins wrote:
Riot wrote:I just bought this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143071

yum much?
It'll be wasted on Counter Strike.

Vanguard ***

And what game do you propose that I waste it on? Insane Aquarium? lawlawlaw

lgolem · Post by **lgolem** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:08 am

Fluffyumpkins wrote:
Riot wrote:I just bought this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143071

yum much?
It'll be wasted on Counter Strike.

I perfer it to be wasted on CS rather than something like World of Warcraft or worse yet Final Fantasy 11

SoDeepPolaris · Post by **SoDeepPolaris** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:37 pm

lgolem wrote:
Fluffyumpkins wrote:
Riot wrote:I just bought this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143071

yum much?
It'll be wasted on Counter Strike.
I perfer it to be wasted on CS rather than something like World of Warcraft or worse yet Final Fantasy 11

Guys, shut up.

I've been in heavy discussion with Riot about this and I know he'll be using it to its full potential...

Fluffyumpkins · Post by **Fluffyumpkins** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:18 pm

Riot wrote:
Fluffyumpkins wrote:
Riot wrote:I just bought this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143071

yum much?
It'll be wasted on Counter Strike.
Vanguard ***

And what game do you propose that I waste it on? Insane Aquarium? lawlawlaw

I'm level 9. lawlawlaw

Riot · Post by **Riot** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:13 pm

=)

I just ordered

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103542

and

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817194003

along with my new

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814143071

My computer will be able to take down a city.

Potter · Post by **Potter** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:49 pm

very unlikely with a 2.2ghz proc

Riot · Post by **Riot** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:59 pm

It's AMD and dual core, it doesn't = Intel ghz. I thought people understood this by now? The highest they even make is 2.6, and those are $300 processors. It probably translates to like around 4 on the intel scale. Or 4 billion.

Potter · Post by **Potter** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:14 pm

,or not. dual core doesn't make it double the speed, i thought people would understand this by now. when you run one program, aka a game, it doesn't run any faster than its single core counterpart. all it does is provide 2 cores so programs can run on separate cores therefore only noticing speed increases when running more than one big program. learn how dual core works. and i never mentioned intel. im running a 2.4 ghz amd and theres lots of times i could use a faster peice of kit. not that you would be doing anything like that, just your cs and stuff.

Post by **MonMotha** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:29 pm

You fail to account for these things called "threads". Many, many games are multithreaded nowadays. If the game has two threads each sharing roughly 1/2 of the computational load for the game, then a dual core proc / dual CPU system (you know, like people built before they crammed them all on a single chip) will exhibit a nearly 2x performance gain. Of course, that's only thinking of gaming uses, and there are those of us who use their PCs for more than gaming. There have definatley been times when I've had upwards of 8 to 10 distinct processes all wanting as much CPU time as they can get.

Also, AMD and Intel clockspeed vs. performance is much more comparable now that Intel has moved back to a more sane architecture (core series). It's still not a 1:1 comparison, of course, but much closer than comparing K8 to Netburst like you used to have to do.

Potter · Post by **Potter** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:23 pm

yes, i aint talking about multithreaded games.