Nehalem prices

Newegg just listed Nehalem related parts:

CPU: $320 for 2.66GHz, 20x multi (+2 for turbo)
Motherboards: we have ONE at $220, then they're $280~$400
Ram: 2GB $70+, 4GB $115+, 6GB $250+

So with cheapest motherboard and cpu and 4GB ram we're already looking at $655. Add case ($50), heatsink($50), power supply($100), and hard drive($50) it'll be around $900.

Now I don't feel like buying anymore. Let's wait for some of these prices to drop and people to report their overclocks.

Wikipedia is teh win

Mao-HiME

Nothing that was related to Mai-HiME that's not Mai-HiME has been good, and the bad name doesn't instill confidence. Coming next season.

Chihiroooooooooooooooooooo

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Economy Update

$150 now buys you 1.5TB hard drive. This works out to be the easy math of 10 cents per gigabyte. So now it's easier than ever to determine what hard drive prices are good. I still remember the time when a good deal was 40 cents per gigabyte, when 250GB for $100 was the deal to get (yes yes I'm a noob).

Nehalem NDA lifted yesterday, performance advantage over Penryn was about 30% overall like the abundance of leaks we've seen for quite a while. We will still need more time, however, to see what the prices will look like. Nehalem isn't even available for purchase yet, motherboards prices rumors aren't optimistic, and DDR3 combined with triple-channel kits will certainly be a new market.

AT&T joins Time Warner and Comcast in trying out the bandwidth cap thing. So um... I think that covers all the high speed internet providers...

In other news, Obama wins teh presidency. The popular votes are still very close: 51% to 47%. But what was so differently this time compared to the past to that made the electoral votes a landslide 338 -156? Boggle.

Tales of the Abyss was teh fail, despite epic op. =(