New Official ATOT Nef Thread III

[MotF Bane]

PMP :biggrin:

No, my dreaded nemesis, Calculus II.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

But you should wait for Bulldozer just because Intel will drop SB price :biggrin:

That was my plan, but if Bulldozer doesn't at least equal SB in performance, there will be no price drops.

 

[MotF Bane]

Now I get to spend the rest of the day trying to fax forms back and forth to and from the zoo.

 

[sdifox]

You can wait forever on building a new computer.

Bulldozer is supposed to be out in June...

 

[IndyColtsFan]

PMP :biggrin:

I need to get going on that again.

 

[MotF Bane]

Text received. Perfect, two quiet little shakes in my pocket. Perfect.

 

[MotF Bane]

Bulldozer is supposed to be out in June...

I said don't look at hardware news for six months. I'm still within six months of my last build. Actually... I kinda stopped giving a shit, but that's another matter entirely.

 

[MotF Bane]

That was my plan, but if Bulldozer doesn't at least equal SB in performance, there will be no price drops.

Correct, but you will have lost nothing in the waiting.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

ICF, buy the computer whenever you want one. Then don't read new consumer hardware news for six months.

I'm not overly concerned with that to be honest. I should probably wait longer not for the sake of hardware, but it will give me the opportunity to see the final specs for BF3 and SW:TOR and then I can decide what I need at this stage. Although, with both likely releasing this fall/winter, it probably doesn't matter now since Bulldozer is likely the only new release in that time frame. I will wait until after E3 for sure to see if we do see some benchmarks at least.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Bulldozer is supposed to be out in June...

Rumor is that AMD is pushing it back to September. I'm wondering if we'll see a paper launch at E3 and then widespread availability by September.

 

[sdifox]

That was my plan, but if Bulldozer doesn't at least equal SB in performance, there will be no price drops.

the price drop will come regardless of the actual performance of Bulldozer, just because Intel can beat down AMD :biggrin:

 

[IndyColtsFan]

the price drop will come regardless of the actual performance of Bulldozer, just because Intel can beat down AMD :biggrin:

I wonder if Intel will release another round of SB with higher default clocks while we're waiting for IB. With 2600Ks going well into the 4 Ghz range, you'd think it would be easy money for Intel to release another round.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I said don't look at hardware news for six months. I'm still within six months of my last build. Actually... I kinda stopped giving a shit, but that's another matter entirely.[/QUOTE]

That is my situation to some extent. I still have an interest in computers, but I don't see the need to upgrade every 3 years any more. The only reason I am even contemplating upgrading is because the main components are effectively free for me. If I had to pay for all of the components, I'd probably hold out another year or so.

 

[MotF Bane]

Nef.

 

[sdifox]

Rumor is that AMD is pushing it back to September. I'm wondering if we'll see a paper launch at E3 and then widespread availability by September.

humm, apparently pushed back to July...

funny how this place links rumour source to anandtech but I can't find it on anandtech

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Bulldozer-Delay-Confirmed-Launch-Pushed-Back-to-July-203017.shtml

 

[sdifox]

My Opty 165 mb is dead. I will need a new pc.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

humm, apparently pushed back to July...

funny how this place links rumour source to anandtech but I can't find it on anandtech

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Bulldozer-Delay-Confirmed-Launch-Pushed-Back-to-July-203017.shtml

I can wait that long to see the benches.

 

[MotF Bane]

Computers now can do pretty much everything you want as fast as you can instruct them to do so. There's not much left.

Sure, you can get a dozen core .1nm 10GHz processor, strap on a terabyte of RAM, load it up with the nVidia NUCLEARFUSIONWARPCORE GTX... and fancy that, when you're sitting around neffing, or rebuilding your network, or playing 95% of all games ever made, or post-processing your pictures, it really won't matter.

 

[MotF Bane]

No response from the registrar regarding a refund, but that is not surprising.

 

[sdifox]

ahahahahahahahha

refund


ahahahahahahahhaha

 

[MotF Bane]

I can't find a calendar on their website to say when the add/drop period ends for the summer courses, but that is not surprising either.

Their policy is to not refund the $30 registration fee. Accordingly, I am not dropping the courses myself, I want to get them to force me out of the courses, so I can more ably demand that the fee be returned to me.

 

[MotF Bane]

ahahahahahahahha

refund


ahahahahahahahhaha

If I am kicked from the classes, they legally must refund me.

 

[sdifox]

I can't find a calendar on their website to say when the add/drop period ends for the summer courses, but that is not surprising either.

Their policy is to not refund the $30 registration fee. Accordingly, I am not dropping the courses myself, I want to get them to force me out of the courses, so I can more ably demand that the fee be returned to me.

bad idea... you may miss the full refund period.

 

[MotF Bane]

Last drop day is next Monday. Good, plenty of time this week to argue with them.

 

[MotF Bane]

Let's see... registrar will probably answer this evening to say they can't see who I am without further information. I'll reply within an hour, they'll reply tomorrow afternoon to say I'm still enrolled, and that I can drop myself out, but sans fee. Then I tell them I want the fee back too, as it was not my choice to leave, and at that point, I'll probably have to bug the EE department to tell them they still have not dropped me, asking if I should just start coming to the classes.