You guys can guess that I'm following this thread because even at 56, I have permawood waiting for Nehalem....
BUT what I see is a lot of guys who are much smarter than I am and know much more about the internal design of the cpus essentially trying to "one up" each other with that knowledge and where beliefs collide slamming one another even if it's done in a "cutesy" way.
Is it necessary? Can't people keep an open mind and say to themselves that maybe they don't know it all and the other guy might, just might understand one area better than they do?
It really comes across at times like two 15 year olders dropping trou and saying "mine is bigger than yours"
Ego is a thing best left in another room when accessing the forum and discussing.
You learn more, you make friends vs enemies and your blood pressure stays lower.
I sit here, I read and try to comprehend a technology that wasn't available back when I was in school and probably had a few million more brain cells, at least the ones that help with learning, but I honestly wonder and am frustrated at times with the apparent need to be "right"
Voice your opinion, back it up with facts if you have them or if not, just say that this is how I "think" it works and then read what the other guys says.
WE all learn this way and at the end of the day aren't cursing on another.