Less than 1 month old. never overclocked. will ship in original intel little plastic cover. no cooler. Not looking for any trades gents. prefer a money order.
I thought I would use all the power of this chip but I don't.
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it's already a success. it's going to be nothing like vista. it's already a good product, you hate metro fine. but you're way off base saying that others are going to hate it to. it's a better windows 7. and it's only going to get better.
people spent lots of time in DOS when windows 3.1 first came out. This is going to pass. Every major change is the same. People freak out. Then they get used to it. I am already used to windows 8 after a few hours of use. once you figure out the hot spots you are good to go.
the reason they went to this start screen is they anticipate people installing lots and lots and lots of apps, which would make the win 7 start screen unwieldy.
windows 8 is a breeze after about 1 hour with it. it's way better than windows 7. I am in Metro when I want to be in Metro and not any more. I don't feel disoriented at all. I use Metro as a start screen and for that purpose it's fine. win 8 desktop is a smoother faster more efficient win 7. And...
no. you think the people moving from DOS to win 3.1 thought it was seamless and didn't have to learn anything? window 3 series to win 95? This happens every time there is an advance. People hate change. they resist change. then they eventually embrace it. this will be no different.
I have an i3-2100 65w tdp. I never expected I could run my 2100 in a 65w system still I figured out how efficient the PSU is and how the 2100 doesn't use anywhere near 65w on average. I didn't realize that your chip is a 100w tdp. Your chip uses more power at load than mine does, however and...