Match Thread: Arsenal v Blackburn (1300 GMT)

AndyCarroll · 2012-02-04T14:00:15.021155+00:00

I just hope Wenger doesn't train the raw talent out of him... but he's shaping up to be better than Walcott. Great finishing, for a start.

BilllyMayes · 2012-02-04T03:22:55.251545-07:00

The problem is that either we nor you can read her mind. Talk to her about it.

essohbee · 2012-02-04T10:03:48.577919+00:00

I'm not saying crashes should be swept under the rug, I'm just saying the overall user experience is an important consideration when you're designing these things.

essohbee · 2012-02-04T00:43:02.621594+00:00

Absolutely agree on that one!

ThrowAwayForTodayGuy · 2012-02-04T00:42:16.896794+00:00

This is all totally normal. Getting over your first serious relationship is always a tough and drawn-out process, and often leaves you craving another one. Finding the right girl for a long term relationship can take a long time too. All you can do is keep meeting new people and eliminating possibilities. That said, actively seeking a serious relationship isn't usually a great idea - you might end up forcing yourself into one with someone who's not suitable. Just focus on living your life and enjoying it. Being single is a kind of freedom that you perhaps haven't properly considered or appreciated yet.

KeepOnJumping · 2012-02-03T17:30:30.144861-07:00

When you're in a relationship, there will always be other people you're attracted to. It's how you deal with it that counts. If you are fully committed to the relationship that you are in, the right thing to do is distance yourself from this new girl, and thus remove yourself from temptation.

However, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you are having doubts about this girl you're with now. I don't see you writing many good reasons to stay with her. You're clearly very different people who don't do many fun things together, and it sounds like you should be assessing whether she is really right for you. You should try and do this without consideration for the new girl you're attracted to, though. That is, you should ask: Am I better off alone than with this girl? Is she, on her own merits and without consideration for anyone else, truly what I want in a partner?

fungusgolem · 2012-02-04T00:15:25.832247+00:00

I don't know, really, you should be fine with either solution, especially since you're not looking to push it to the very limits...

fungusgolem · 2012-02-03T17:14:01.975018-07:00

Yeah, don't worry about the North bridge too much. It usually takes care of itself. It helps to have good air flow in the case, though.

theswedishgamer · 2012-02-04T00:12:48.773879+00:00

Eyefinity is for AMD cards only... Unless you are talking about equivalent technologies similar to Eyefinity also.

fungusgolem · 2012-02-03T16:48:51.277983-07:00

Well, there's water cooling and then there's water cooling. Those little Corsair units are great because they're all-in-one and you don't have to worry about separate tubes, pumps, radiators or anything. Solidly built too, if leakage is your main concern.

fungusgolem · 2012-02-03T23:36:43.912191+00:00

The motherboard will be fine for overclocking. If you're planning on doing an overclock in any serious way, I'd look at an aftermarket CPU cooler. The Corsair H series self-contained water-cooling units are very popular.

spambot419 · 2012-02-03T16:29:41.516888-07:00

I blame all of those 'when you see it...' pictures.

essohbee · 2012-02-03T23:23:17.897193+00:00

It seems to me like this is just a study of apps that use their analytics.

That's still a valid source. It's obviously a source with bias because of that, but you can't claim there isn't a source at all.

theswedishgamer · 2012-02-03T23:19:07.570706+00:00

Hmm. You're right, finding a 560 Ti 2GB SLI benchmark is very tricky. Having said that, the 1GB SLI benchmark is not worthless. The performance level would be pretty much identical in situations where less than 1GB of VRAM is in use.

WaterSnake · 2012-02-03T15:36:08.087001-07:00

Here's the thing: You will have to upgrade the motherboard, CPU and RAM simultaneously. A new motherboard will not be able to accept your current CPU, nor will it accept DDR2 RAM.

My advice would be to save up until you have the money for everything. You could upgrade the graphics now, which would help to an extent, but its performance will likely be somewhat limited by the older components in the rest of your machine.

It's also vital that you check what your PSU actually is and its maximum output, and make sure that it has enough grunt to power whatever you buy.

I am not too hot on RAID arrays, so I can't really advise you on that one. Hopefully someone else will be able to help - you could also ask about this part over at /r/hardware or /r/techsupport.

Plurnay · 2012-02-03T15:29:38.821265-07:00

/r/hardware is also good for this sort of thing.

magister0 · 2012-02-03T22:25:03.924943+00:00

I don't know. They've done some dark stuff over the years. This one is very recent too.

spambot419 · 1 day

That's going to be one big IOU by age 18.

essohbee · 1 day

To be even more pedantic, jsbisviewtiful does disagree with the study in a literal sense. It's just a disagreement on very questionable grounds.

essohbee · 1 day

You've thrown up an interesting point here. User experience in the event of a crash, or the perception of how bad the event that just happened was, is probably equally as important as how often the crash actually happens.

essohbee · 1 day

Fancy graphics are meaningless if no source is provided.

Every single website that's carrying these graphics is citing Crittercism as the source.

dedbodiez · 1 day

Hmm. Guess your overclock was unstable for reasons other than heat, then!

essohbee · 1 day

I agree, I can't see the actual study on the Crittercism website anywhere.

Edit: Lots more websites are using the same data. I'm guessing it was only released to the press...

essohbee · 1 day

You're allowed to disagree if you like, but countering a large dataset with one piece of anecdotal evidence isn't a particularly strong argument. Nobody's saying that every individual experience will correlate with the data.

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