Finished College!

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I've finished my college course finally! 16 weeks (more if you count the breaks) of 6-9pm on a Thursday, coupled with a good few hours in the week for assignments.

This evening I've just got to hand in my portfolio of work, then that should be it! Time for some beer! Well tomorrow evening at least...

On a side note, my motherboard arrived this morning at 7:30am. Normally I would be happy and I suppose I am, but I fell straight back asleep once I had signed for it. 7:30 is sleep time.

Next week I'll order the memory (£200 for 2gb of decent Corsair DDR-2) and then build it all up and test it out. Managed to grab one of the rare AM2 X2 4000+ 2mb L2 Cache chips before they were discontinued. And before you say - I'm not going Intel and Conroe or Conartist, whatever it is. I'd rather continue being an AMD fanboy, if you can call it that... I refer to it as AMD enthusiast instead.

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yeah im simply used to amd stuff now. what this college course? mmm college girls..... wordup gonna do my pooter when i finish this jobber probber, or buy a nice bicycle to thrill myself on.

adamskii


oh and why they discontinue that chip?

adamskii


I did a Stage One college course in Further Education teaching. It was compulsory for work, but I actually enjoyed it in the end - though I'm enjoying the free time more now...

Literally a week or two after releasing the AM2 chips, AMD decided to drop the 1mb Level 2 Cache chips (1mb per core = 2mb total). This was to simplify its product line, as it went 3800, 4000, 4200, 4400 etc. where the 3800X2 was a 2ghz 512kb per core cache chip and the 4000 was a 2ghz 1mb per core, with the 4200 a 2.2ghz 512kb and the 4400 a 2.2ghz 1mb per core and so on.

It's confusing, so they discontinued the better X2 1mb per core chips (like my 4000+) to simplify the product line and make it easier for people to decide on a chip.

More info here.

Matt


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