I'm looking forward to giving this a shot. I've been running an OC'd i7-920 since 2009 @ 4ghz. It's been a rock. But the Xeon x5600 series looked... damn cheap and impressive. Bought a x5670 on ebay for $20 USD (made an offer, was asking $39.00, and he accepted), so I can't wait to get my hands...
So I decided to take the dive and bought a X5670 on eBay. Got it for a steal! The guy accepted a "make an offer" of $20 USD (didn't think he would, he was asking $39.00). So, going up from my i7-920 D0 @ 4ghz to the new Xeon, I'm hoping to OC it to at least 4.0, but would like higher of course...
Still sporting my i7-920 @ 4ghz here. It's been solid as hell. Although I haven't been gaming much this past year, I'm running a GTX 680 in nvSurround, with a 4th monitor on top of the 3. It pushed everything quite nicely. No, I wouldn't play max settings in most games, but it handled...
Been using Chrome for years, love it. I'm fond of Firefox too, but Chrome has been my daily driver - GF uses firefox. My work has sites that only work in IE, so I just use IE tab in Chrome and it works perfectly. There's IE tab for Firefox too btw.
I one put a hot dog in the microwave for 37 years. This was about 30 years ago when we got our first one, and it had no max time - the digits just kept shuffling over and over. 37 years is a decent guess I would say. I was like, 9 years old so thought "I'll just watch it! Yeah!" and then my mind...