Well my stimulus package has already been spent! Half of it anyway. On a whim, Sunday, I went down to the local MSY store (not so local considering I have to drive 20 or so minutes) to buy a new processor. My AMD 9500 Phenom just wasn’t cutting it any more and wanted a new Phenom 2 to give my system a little boost. By using an Intel 2.5ghz Xeon quad at work I felt I was missing out on something and my home PC seemed like such a slug compared to my work PC , enough to make any tech-head cry from envy. Although my initial idea was to get a Phenom 920, MSY didn’t have any stock so what was I supposed to do? Like any compulsive spender I just super sized it and went for the Phenom 940, which they did have in stock. No matter the $60 price increase for 200Mhz – I fulfilled my desire and isn’t that how society works? I did try and dissuade myself from buying it – taunting my desire with questions like “Do I really need this new hardware?”…”Is it really necessary?….Fuck no, it’s not necessary, nor do I need it but I wanted it….Isn’t that reason enough?

And boy does this thing fly. I love this processor. This speed is what I’ve been waiting for, my whole life has accumulated to the moment when I could drop a 3Ghz processor into my slot. The moment of perfection, the crystallising moment of  creation where “The Wow Starts Now”. Okay it wasn’t as dramatic as all that but my dick got hard – okay that’s not true either but I was impressed by the responsiveness so the instant gratification I craved was satisfied. Besides it was a present to myself for being a good boy. Five years of being good after many years of being bad is good enough reason to celebrate with a splurge on new tech.

I just did a quick bench test and this beast shaved a good sum off super-pi from the best score I got from the Phenom 9500, which I think was 34 or 35 seconds but normally 43 seconds.

Super-Pi Mod 1.5