My first Intel CPU since the mighty Celeron 300a

I have a convenient excuse for an upgrade.

My northbridge chip fan died on my A8N-SLI Deluxe a few weeks back. Since the board is still under warranty I performed and RMA and sent it in for repair. I am still waiting.

For its eventual replacement (which shipped 30 minutes ago) I am awaiting an Intel Core 2 Duo e6400 which is a 2.18Ghz part. A Gigabyte DS3 motherboard, and 2GB of Corsair RAM.

I am going to transplant those parts into my case and use my x800XL a bit longer until some native DirectX 10 cards are released later this year.

The old parts, will migrate into the inlaws PC which is running on some ancient pre K7 hardware. If I remember right, less than 700mhz with only 384MB of RAM. So an upgrade for me, means an upgrade for someone else in the family due to a hand me down.

The benchies on the new Core 2 Duo look mighty impressive, especially with a moderate overclock. If I can bump my processor to 2.4Ghz my goal will be achieved of obtaining e6600 performance. If I can do anything better than that, it is all bonus gravy, and I LOVE gravy.

Outsourcing

Just watched 30 Days tonight which had a subject of outsourcing.

I have always been against outsourcing.

You take away a job from an American, he can no longer afford to buy products. It may not be from the company that did the outsourcing, the the point remains. You lay off that worker to outsource that job, that worker cant buy products sold in America. Another comapny does the same, he buys different products, but the point remains. All these workers who used to be paid great wages, their jobs now overseas are no longer able to buy products due to outsourcing.

The CEOs of these companies then wonder, why are they losing money, they are saving boatloads on paying people in India less than a quarter that they paid to the American. The answer is above. You lay off the American worker, and then he wont be able to pay for things that other companies sell. It is a vicious cycle that needs to stop.