Power color 9800 Pro (Retail) at Monarch for $115.00 shipped.

[Kevin]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
Criticism aside, is this R360?
And 256bit as confirmed?

THe box says 256bit and I believe its an R360 but I'm not entirely sure. It has Samsung memory, is that a factor?

 

[webley]

Originally posted by: puppyfriend
So true. The US is following the model of most of South America. Spending way too much and living a lifestyle it can't afford. Both consumers and governments are out spending their incomes. We'll all have to pay the price in the end.

Well said. Everyone who's resisting the temptation to spend everything on lots of unneeded things and instead investing and saving mostly give yourself a pat on the back! You're on your way to being wealthy and more FREE every day!

I've personally been making good progress in spending only on good deals if it is something I absolutely need (not simply want) and feel happy and more in control of my financial security. I desperately wish the government would start being careful with our tax money. Even the Republicans are overdoing it these days.

 

[pxc]

Sapphire 9800 Pro 128MB 256-bit memory, $120 shipped: http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant...=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=190675

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: webley

Originally posted by: puppyfriend
So true. The US is following the model of most of South America. Spending way too much and living a lifestyle it can't afford. Both consumers and governments are out spending their incomes. We'll all have to pay the price in the end.

Well said. Everyone who's resisting the temptation to spend everything on lots of unneeded things and instead investing and saving mostly give yourself a pat on the back! You're on your way to being wealthy and more FREE every day!

I've personally been making good progress in spending only on good deals if it is something I absolutely need (not simply want) and feel happy and more in control of my financial security. I desperately wish the government would start being careful with our tax money. Even the Republicans are overdoing it these days.

Not to be off topic (i.e., the 9800 Pro topic), but you seriously need to catch a clue. "Even the republicans are overdoing it these days"...HA! The repubs have been over doing it since they took the vast control of the U.S. government back in 1981 with Reagan.

It took ~110 years for the total U.S. debt to reach just under $1 trillion dollars (up to 1981) when the repubs began spending our G.D. money like drunken S.B.'s and now the debt stands at ~$7 trillion dollars.

And I don't want to hear how the dems did it via congress either. That's total nonsense. Since 1981, the repubs have had control of the majority of the government branches as follows:

Presidency: Repubs 16 years; Dems 8 years.
U.S. Senate: Repubs 16 years; Dems 8 years.
U.S. House: Repubs 10 years; Dems 14 years.

And since the U.S. budget has to be approved by all 3 branches of government for each year's budget, the repubs get all the credit (or in this case...the blame) for over-spending and hitting record levels of debt every year for the last ~25 years.

Other than the repubs putting the country into massive debt...the other thing the repubs do equally well is propagand (i.e., getting people to actually believe the saying "tax and spend democrates" is the truth, when in reality it's much more realistic to say "borrow and spend republicans" which is the real story with the U.S. debt).

 

[coomar]

I laughed when I saw you talk about postdoctorates! Postdocs are low-wage gypsy scientist positions and the only reason people with 9+ years of college education take them is because they cannot find better jobs (either as academics or industry researchers). The very existence of postdocs suggests an oversupply of Ph.D.'s. (This has been public knowledge for some time. Even Science published a short article about a glut of physics Ph.D.'s a couple years back (something like 1470 newly awarded physics Ph.D.'s and only 42 jobs for them in a certain recent year).

I"m a physics undergrad and we never heard anything along those lines, I know at my university almost all the new profs are from europe b/c of the lack of physics phd's they could find here to fill the position as are a number of ga's. My cousin is doing physics at xavier and I remember in the brochure that the average physics undergrad program generates like 10 graduates a year or something and not that many go into doctorates

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: mrrman
fatal error on link...

 

[Jassi]

Originally posted by: coomar
I"m a physics undergrad and we never heard anything along those lines, I know at my university almost all the new profs are from europe b/c of the lack of physics phd's they could find here to fill the position as are a number of ga's. My cousin is doing physics at xavier and I remember in the brochure that the average physics undergrad program generates like 10 graduates a year or something and not that many go into doctorates

I knew some physics majors as an undergrad but most of them were planning to go to med school. So, I agree with you there.

Also for the other guy, Post Doc research is an almost required step for most people who want to become a professor. And if you knew what kind of contribution they make, you wouldn't consider them useless. Granted its low pay but I think its your chance to prove that you are passionate about the topic and not the money.

 

[Pollock]

Can anyone else confirm or deny the core is R360?

Edit: Meant the Sapphire one, as the link to the Powercolor one doesn't seem to work.
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant...=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=190675