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  I believe it's a new socket/chipset that's faster than all the monacle wearing i7 buyers : jingletard
  • like this guy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/75161281@N00/2497597780/ : BongSlayerB
• 2nd gen i7 architecture. : TabsAZ
• 2nd gen Core i cpus. : prime8
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  from my limited understanding, Sandy Bridge is the shit. : Hemtroll
  • lol : Maddog_Delphi97
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  Yeah, what is it, and how much better is it than the old i5/i7 chipset? : re-verse
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    http://techreport.com/articles.x/20188 : Freon
    • Thanks! : re-verse
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  New i5 and i7. Replaces i5-6xx, i5-7xx, i7-8xx. They're really fast. i7-2500K and i7-2600K are pretty ... : Freon
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    What's the difference between i7-2500K and i7-2600K? Size of the cache? : Maddog_Delphi97
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      6MB vs 8MB cache, and the 2600k has hyperthreading so it can run 8 threads vs 4 : sanchez
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        Very little difference in games. More difference in real apps. I'm somewhat surprised devs haven't made u... : ZenzenTen
        • Support more than one core in games is getting there. The biggest problem is the age old issue of all th... : Maddog_Delphi97
        • Yeah it's main advantage will be in multi-threaded stuff. Encoding stuff etc : sanchez
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          we just need id to say "quake 5 is optimized for sandy bridge" and BOOM headshot : Downforce
          • we just need notch to say "yeah, you can build 128 story castles out of bedrock in no time with sandy bri... : Maddog_Delphi97
          • I figure by the time a game is optimized for 4+ threads, there will something better out, so save $100 no... : ZenzenTen
        • Alan Wake is going to use quad co- wait nm : veras
      • I want that fast shit in my pants!! And no, I don't have the runs : Maddog_Delphi97
    • 2500K is i5 and 2600K is i7 : grendel
    • 100 lolol : Freon
    • Hyperthreading. In practical game benchmarks there is a minimal difference. That may change someday, but ... : Serpico74
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  Its the "new" bacon. Don't eat old bacon, eat new bacon. : sukabljat
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    Mmmmm, I do love me some BACON : Maddog_Delphi97
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      hello giant red text! ..want bacon now... : uebersoldat
      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ODplybyU4 : Maddog_Delphi97
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  damn! is this pricing confirmed anywhere else? http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic157230.html : freakord
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24933385#itemanchor_24933385 : saunders45
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      Man, that 2500K price is so tempting... : pyrogen
      • When I upgrade in a couple months, that's what I'm doing. I don't need bleeding edge, but that's a hugeas... : saunders45
    • holy. fucking. shit : freakord
    • Yeah, I don't have a Microcenter near me, but I'm pretty sure there will be a 2500K on my face at some po... : trOmblyj

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• you can have Phil's spot : Slowtreme
• No way man. There's plenty of room...I don't think we have enough guys to raid, do we? : Magus
• There is room for everyone. Raids should be about weekly, more if we have the numbers for 2 groups. ... : re-verse

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  I'd have a word with the postman if I were you. : pigvomit
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    Why??? : Fenring42
    • a little late in delivery : jimmy_legs
• Did that get lost in shipping for 8+ years? : Strid3rtheGreat
• well that's about time! : Hemtroll
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  why would you order wood by mail? : multisync
  • It's the future. : ateam311
  • You haven't? : Fenring42
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  Why didn't you just purchase it through steam? : denixen
  • I wanted the soundtrack, figure and artbook. : Fenring42
  • if you're going to buy an 8 year old collector's edition you might as well get the fancy box : Hemtroll
  • it doesn't come with the little pewter ordinator figurine : stoned wallaby crop circle
• BYAZURABYAZURABYAZURA! : get_navi
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  Just remember, the dwemer puzzle box is right by the front of the fort! : braaains
  • omg spoiler that shit : Hemtroll
  • >:( : BackSinner
• We're watching you... scum : locater16
• all I got was a delivery notice telling me to pick mine up tommorow. :( I bought some new g35 headphones,... : shakybonez31

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• looks pretty nifty! : niceguynick

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  it always seemed to lag a few weeks behind to be useful unless i constantly logged in. and I couldn't get... : GloriousCow
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    hmm, i shall see, we have emigrant accounts but dont constantly move money in and out. : cblguy82
    • the bazillions of security questions made mint just have trouble logging in to those accounts at all : GloriousCow
• We use it to keep track of our finances. We have been using it for a year or two with no problems gettin : Galadriel07
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  i do! but i don't think i really use it to its fullest potential. i basically use it just to visualize ... : Korban
  • I'm the same way and it's awesome : uglysad
• I want to try it, but I can't import my history from MS Money : Code RedBeard
• Seems to break a lot less for me lately. It would be useful if it updated my account automatically everyd... : JT
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  http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=mint.com&cs_user=&cs_parentauthor=&s_type=all : proclone1
  • who uses comment searches these days? : cblguy82
• i love it! : dahanese
• It's a lot better than what it used to be thankfully. Their tagging of receipts is actually helpful now, ... : Fredrik S
• Seems to be useful. I'm using it more for retirement planning and budgeting. I don't know if it's easy/fa... : zipr
• I have a MINT account. My weekly reminders are regularly off by at least 4 days. I use it occasionally ... : xylopagus

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• I love it. The problem with PC shit is that once you start using PC terms in context of the original, ev... : pigvomit
• That's even funnier. : NastyJack
• On the flipside I watched it for the first time in HD and uncensored on showcase here in canada. :) Yay : avatar_58
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  You'll also notice in a lot of older movies where they mute out the swears instead of having a dubbed ver... : riptyde
  • I love watching 48 hours this way. The scene where Eddie and Nolte are in the bar and Eddie is just swear... : sigpro
• Did he meet a stranger in the alps? : locater16
• You never go full special. : Waffles!
• It's very much a "Yippie Ki Yay Mr. Falcon" situation... : saunders45

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• It looked like she lost some weight or something prior to last night's episode. Either way, she was incre... : TylerJSmith
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  Steele is an embarrassment. : MagicWishMonkey
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    Also - http://imgur.com/UcFvR hahahah : MagicWishMonkey
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      that is one hell of a palette swap : spiderfill
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        http://img.skitch.com/20090511-rbicw5pg112uwit1i77sdngq6x.png : manero
        • also http://www.averagebro.com/2009/06/separated-at-birth-steele-humpty-hump.html for further evidence : manero
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  tldr on the Michael Steele stuff? : NastyJack
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    His favorite book is War and Peace... "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times." : MagicWishMonkey
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      He wasn't kidding? : NastyJack
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        No. It's even worse because he added the quote at the end for no reason, he should have just shut up. : MagicWishMonkey
        • He should have finished it off and said it was his favorite Tolkien book. : eldiablo01
        • The sad thing is that if he'd said "A Tale of Two Cities", he could not have only made a good analogy wit... : riptyde
    • *hits head on desk* : riptyde
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    Panel Host: "What is your favorite book?" ... Michael Steele: War and Peace *light uncomfortable l : Foxhawk
    • whoa he is trolling with that one meme!!! : spiderfill
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  What does "I filter P/R on the shack" mean? : OverloadUT
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    political religious? : MagicWishMonkey
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      I keep it off also, have there been any interesting discussions or just RAH RAH RAH : Slowtreme
      • Not really, it's a lot of the same stuff as usual. Congress might try to pull funding out from under the ... : MagicWishMonkey
    • Ohhhhh that makes sense. I thought he was saying PR like Public Relations and I couldn't figure out how t... : OverloadUT
• Whats hilarious is that I own more than 5 guns (though I don't have room for much more than I have...and ... : Vorlonesque
• Hilarious. : pigvomit
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  If owning guns is a measure of being a Republican, these guys are all Soviets compared to my coworker. H : riptyde
  • truly an american icon : AlexXdude
  • haha, a friend of mines dad is like that. When he uses up all his deer tickets he starts killing deer for... : MagicWishMonkey

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  yep. and we wont tell you next week either. : CoRDS
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    and its not on ABC for streaming WTF! : multisync
    • the 5 EP of Caprica from last night finally showed up on hulu \o/ : Slowtreme
• There were a couple of threads yesterday. : fsck
• I missed it too, fucking morons showing it during a BCS game : gmd
• I left a message! : mikecyb
• Mr. Chocolate Croissant, they didn't tell me either. =( : The Grolar Bear
• Go here: http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/ Click "Add shows to your filter" Enjoy. It's awesome. : OverloadUT
• whoa what : bolneze
• I guess it's not coming to hulu any time soon. Availability: Streaming rights for full episodes are no : ErikTehRed
• No one watched it : Magus

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  How many times must it be said that Season 2 is one of the best before this misconception is corrected? ... : lechuck59
  • truest : burningpantsman
• That courtroom scene is fantastic : bipolar
• Shit is about to GET REAL. Wait... : Freon

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  wuts ur kdr ill tell u if u are allowed to quit yet : spiderfill
  • 2.25 or so : spectr3
• I have yet to do this. Does this mean you have hit level 50 6 times? : lacker
• I was burned out at lvl 22 prestige 1 : Strid3rtheGreat
• I still haven't hit prestige 2, and don't think I'll make it past 3 even with new map packs. I didn't thi... : Head Rush
• I was playing like garbage last night Also got real tired of being spawn killed, so I said fuck it and r... : -=kodiak=-
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  I made it to 3 and then burned out Cataclysm came out. : InfoBiter
  • thank god i burned out on WoW before this came out. : spectr3
• I got burned out at level 40 something without even getting to prestige 1. I'm over CoD. : saunders45

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• Piranha 4D! : Wisp!
• Piranha DVDA : Turd Ferguson
• If it has a naked Kelly Brook in it, I may have to see it. : Lunatic Angelic
• The ending was complete shit. I will see this in theaters day one. : Fenring42
• this movie got good ratings on rottentomatoes : Chandler55
• They should've just gone with "Piranha: Boobs" : sKetchflow

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• I can confirm that it has been checked : Hemtroll
• oh yays : Theos