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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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Well, if you believe what you read on eBay anyway.
2.66GHz x 4 cores = 10.64GHz.
Who writes these listings, seriously?
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eddie543
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:53 pm
Posts: 447
Location: Manchester
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The same people that convince your mum into buying the biggest lump of useless silicon ever erm..... what are they called now........ PC world "specialists"
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trigen_killer
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:37 pm
Posts: 835
Location: North Wales UK
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Old news, mate
tbh, I don't think that I'd go near ANY of these systems on ebay. They are either built by complete k**bs who don't know what they are talking about or built by complete k**bs aiming the systems at complete n00bs who don't know enough to realise that they are built by k**bs.
Either way, these ads always seem to try and baffle with bull[LIFTED] and don't seem to give a simple straightforward spec.
I have looked through them in the past and couldn't spot an out and out scam, but I wouldn't be surprised if the buyer gets the impression that a GTX260 graphics card is supplied when it comes with on-board graphics.
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bally199
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Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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I have a 6.8ghz CPU (2 cores), plus another 9 million ghz as it's HT!  _________________ Kimmotalk is where all the cool people hang.
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Ebay seems not to care about these fraudulent listings. There are loads of them.
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Danstevens
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:44 pm
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LOL, congratulations.
I've no idea who writes those listings but they must be complete idiots.
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm
Posts: 5664
Location: Scotland
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why is knobs censored?
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l3v1ck
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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No, they know full well what they're doing. They're relying on the people who view the listings being complete idiots and falling for their scam.
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trigen_killer
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Location: North Wales UK
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Because the way I mean it, it is very rude.  Yeah, it's the buyers who are the knobs  but that isn't their fault. They are prey for the predators on ebay. _________________My lowest spec operational system- AT desktop case, 200W AT PSU, Jetway TX98B Socket 7, Intel Pentium 75Mhz, 2x16MB EDO RAM, 270MB Quantum Maverick HDD, ATI Rage II+ graphics, Soundblaster 16 CT2230, MS-DOS/Win 3.11 My Flickr
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am
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Does this mean I could list my dual Xeon PC as being 9.6GHz? Two CPU's running at 2.4GHz with two cores each...  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise
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fakesnake
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:30 am
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Location: lost in the wilderness
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Hi, does that mean my old q6600 can be listed @18.4ghz, and yes these sort of adds should be banned.
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
Posts: 3527
Location: Portsmouth
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Could you add on the clock of the GPU to make it a 20GHz machine, or similar?
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
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Location: Bramsche
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And the rest, how many shaders does a GTX285 have?
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jonlumb
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Location: Exeter
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I should go and see what the Physics Department's supercomputer is running at in the Server Room. I reckon it might just win
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nvj1662
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Does it help if it has twin cooling towers? 
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