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I haven't dealt with this material in years, so I'd rather drop out of this discussion... I can't remember further than what I've already stated. :oops: I can make one comment though... Nit-pick: Instruction retires do not happen faster with better branch predition. Rather the ratio of retired instr...

[quote="pc486";p="513382"]That's interesting. I wouldn't expect a larger L1 instruction cache size to help out performance much based on failed branch predictions because the pain in a failed prediction is a flushed pipeline rather than a flushed cache (although a flushed L1 inst...

Speaking of cache differences (aside)

With AMD you also get a larger L1 cache - a lot larger than Intel's - but the numbers are deceptive. L1 cache works differently from L2+, and the main reason AMD's is so large is to make up for AMD's weak branch prediction in their processors.

Random GK boost~!

[quote="Phong";p="513195"]Basically, deal with it, Grav. You will have to turn down guys in the future, there is no way to prevent it, short of perhaps growin mosnterously fat.[/quote] Growing monstrously fat won't stop the invites, it'll just make the sources that much more disg...

[quote="Bigity";p="511785"]Friends? On FFXI? Unless you are Japanese, or can fake it, you can forgot about friends.[/quote] Talk about a skewed, and outdated viewpoint. Granted, this was true back when the game was first released outside Japan, but now the playerbase is split pre...

[quote="Martin Blank";p="509979"][quote="Blaze";p="507145"]All GeForce cards work with the Forceware driver. Some idiot just left them off that list. Contact nVidia. They'll tell you how to fix.[/quote] Not laptop chipsets. nVidia expressly does not support th...

I agree with NewtypeS3 on all counts.

I spent the last hour reading this thread when I should've been doing several Programming labs.

I'm on the verge of failing Programming 2 for a second time and yet I'm still being a lazy fuck and not actually doing my labs.

ph33r m3.

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="509147"]In the old trilogy, Luke asks Leia if she has any memories of her mother. "No. Your real mother" (i.e., not Mrs. Organa)[/quote] Leia was all of what, 10 minutes old when she saw her mother? Likewise Luke. How does that suggest a faul...

I have to say I agree with just about everything iggz has said in this thread. Do me a favor and find me one other black man who turned into a white (over his entire bod) woman (at least facially) because of vitiligo. It doesn't happen. I've seen and known people with vitiligo. They didn't become wh...

[quote="Ruu";p="489723"]I don't like it because the game is slow . And rabbits can kick your butt at the beginning. Things that you should realistically step on and kill with ease will suddenly spin around, swing their cute little tails at you, and send you to the emergency room....

OBI-WAN I’ll just be going now. AUDIENCE CUT HIS HEAD OFF, ASSHOLE! OBI-WAN I said I didn’t want to kill him. I was one of those audience members :D MEDICAL DROID I’m afraid she’s dying. It appears she has an acute case of Stupidity. We were surprised, considering she was once the competent Queen o...

[quote="Koreth";p="505635"]While I'm enthusiastic about all these classics being available(see this thread ), I cannot help but wonder if perhaps Nintendo has run out of ideas and is relying on the nostalgia of gamers who grew up with nintendo to sell their new platform. We see a...

I know a lot of people who would say the opposite. ^.~

You can get FFXI for as low as $20 these days if you look, and the first month is free... not too bad, really.

[quote="Arc Orion";p="505828"]Actually, I believe the licenses Nintendo used to require for their 3rd party developers allows them to release the games, themselves. I could be wrong, though. I'm looking for info on the standard contract they used to have with other developers. If...