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Graphics Card Thwarts Electrical Engineers & their Porn.

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It is amusing to see how companies sell things these days - you'd think that computer geeks would be sufficiently awed by tech-spec's and pictures of Busty-Babes (no doubt under © to somebody) on their computer equipment to need other incentives to buy things and impress their friends - but apparently not.

Looking at the box of a Graphics Card, I saw this (which rather piqued my interest):

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Now, aside from the grammatical weirdness, and the fact that most people buy graphics cards in order to celebrate explosions, I found it rather odd that the manufacturer MSI felt the need to reassure buyers that their equipment was unlikely to explode (curiously thanks to the military, who usually rather enjoy things that explode).  Well, I should say found it odd until I saw what one commentator referred to as "electrical engineer porn" (backed up by the queer sense of amusement these lads seem to get from blowing up PCB parts). :shrug:

It's kind of like how the world was a better place before you learned of the existence of furries and their own odd pornographic pursuits.

As anyone who has ever played around with Overclocking (done properly [i.e., not using a "utility"], a science unto itself) knows, processors have a TDP limit, at which point they just shut down to protect themselves (this usually revolves around the 100°C mark - which, admittedly, is a fair bit of heat).  Somehow it's gratifying to know that my graphics card will only offer a "warning" at 115°C, and not really get upset until 130°C.  Like that was really going to keep me awake at night. :wink:

I did, just for fun, once run a quad-core to 109°C (over-volting with intentional insufficient cooling), and sure enough Lou Reed's immortal line came true:

"But when someone turns that blue
Well, it's a universal truth
And then you just know that b!#©h will never [expletive deleted] again"

Who knew Lou Reed understood the mystical connexions between overclocking and drug-addicted prostitutes so well?

On second thought, who thought there were any mystical connexions between overclocking and drug-addicted prostitutes in the first place?

Whatever happened to the days when my PC would just cryptically "beep" that it was unhappy?
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Heh, p0rn. From which Lou Reed song is that?

I, for one, am working with a "military-grade" HP EliteBook now. You can drive a car over its case and it will still run, or something. I really wonder why they use laptops while fighting the evil.
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I guess it helps to have some p0rn when fighting the evil.
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Tuxman wrote:From which Lou Reed song is that?
The coda from the rather suggestive one with all the cellos that never got much radio-play back in the day.  Back when child-unfriendly lyrics weren't there just to sell records - and Bruce Springsteen still had something to say. :D
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Ah, good old days. I prefer "Berlin" and "The Blue Mask" (the albums) though. I'm more the dark guy.
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