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― William Makepeace Thackeray, ''Vanity Fair'', Chapter XLIV (1847)</blockquote> | ― William Makepeace Thackeray, ''Vanity Fair'', Chapter XLIV (1847)</blockquote> | ||
In August of 2016, I finally pulled the trigger on a long-planned workstation build. That same month, Intel and NVIDIA dropped new product. Hot, salivation-provoking product: densely packed marvels bursting with FLOPS, rough dank beasts woven up from high-κ 16nm and 14nm strained-silicon FinFETs. Both companies, utterly dominant at their markets' high ends, announced pricing that shoved | In August of 2016, I finally pulled the trigger on a long-planned workstation build. That same month, Intel and NVIDIA dropped new product. Hot, salivation-provoking product: densely packed marvels bursting with FLOPS, rough dank beasts woven up from high-κ 16nm and 14nm strained-silicon FinFETs. Both companies, utterly dominant at their markets' high ends, announced pricing that effectively shoved atom bombs up the asses of computing enthusiast throughout the free world. This is the story of that build. | ||
==Intro: Who ordered this?== | ==Intro: Who ordered this?== | ||