I found this advertisment about a powerful computer.
In sweden, no one can find similar computers in stores right now.
7.2Ghz 4core intel pentium 5.
Geforce 10500GTX!! 2gb memory!
8gb ram!
900-1000gb harddrive!
Can you find similar computers which are just about as powerful like this, there you live??
There is no Pentium 5. There are other things I could say about every bullet point on that spec sheet, but I think that alone is good enough.
Yeah, uh, fake.
It's fake, as stated. I'll actually go into detail.
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7.2Ghz 4core intel pentium 5.
Four core processors are coming (if not already here), true, but it's still Pentium 4, IIRC. Plus, 7.2 GHz? Please. The highest Newegg lets you search for is only 3.8 GHz, and that's probably top-of-the-line stuff. Heck, my current proc, an AMD Athlon X2 3800+, is only 2.0GHz, but its dual-core functionality more than makes up for that - it's freakin' fast. Now I only wish I'd waited the month or two it took for the price to halve, so I could be using an even faster processor with the same money (oh well, them's the brakes).
AMD's probably better for gaming, anyway.
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Geforce 10500GTX!! 2gb memory!
We haven't even made it to the GeForce 8 series yet, and the highest the cards have for dedicated video RAM is a full gig, not two (and even then it's probably a little much). Absolute BS.
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8gb ram!
This, you could probably get away with; some motherboards support four RAM slots, which can take 2GB RAM sticks. However, for one, spreading RAM over four slots is somewhat problematic, and for another thing, I'm not even sure the motherboards that sport four slots have BIOSes that recognize 8GB of RAM yet. Either that or the OS. I know there's a bottleneck somewhere, though.
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900-1000gb harddrive!
Absoultely ridiculous. That's just shy of a freakin' terabyte, and I think there'd be a bit more buzz over terabyte hard drives.
There are some freakin' big hard drives, mind; Newegg shows an upper bound of 750GB, but it's by far the exception, not the norm. Damned expensive to boot, though $1.74 per gig (factoring in the fact that you're not actually getting 7% of the advertised size, so this is more roughly just 700GB) might not be bad - it's been a while since I checked prices.
Regardless, all but the RAM is absolute crap, and even that detail is mostly implausible. Who the hell is advertising this?
I computer powered by hypothetical technology sounds like something out of a Douglas Adams book.
Please tell me your joking o_O
I'm not joking with you.
The story is true.
I guess the computer is sold now, because the ad is gone.
If the ad was a fake object, no one would allow that on anothers 'buy and sell' site!
I believe they accepted the ad.
No, it's not. Read above.
Fake.
Speaking of ads....
www.heartlandamerica.com/...S&DL=SEH23
and
www.heartlandamerica.com/...4E11-AF87-
Should that really... REALLY cost that much?
Yes, it should, Lighty. Look at the specs, those things are crap.
Yes, it should, Lighty. Look at the specs, those things are crap.
That's the point; I might pay $10 for one of those, but only if I could find room for it.
Haha I love the big flashy logos saying things like "6 GIG HARD DRIVE!" and "128 MB!". It's like something out of Strong Bad e-mail.
12 years ago that computer would have been awesome @ lightys link.
Guys, I think you're failing to take into account the URL. "Heartland America"...that's top of the line and actually pretty cheap.
