Why I still use Windows

By now, looking at my posts under the linux tag, most of you must have guessed that I am a 1337 linux user. And yes I am. I use linux almost exclusively, whatever be the purpose. From playing games to work, from viewing multimedia to browsing the internet, from office work to multimedia studio applications, from desktop publishing to web designing, from programing to customising, I am always satisfied and I can never have enough of this wonderful system, GNU/Linux.

Despite all this, I still need to keep windows. There are a variety of reasons, none of them my fault, due to which I still need to keep an inferior, insecure, featureless platform with me all the time, and though its rarely booted into, windows is still an important software I need to install…

Extreme Computing with AMD Phenom

AMD has breaking performance charts and five star rating barriers with its new 780G budget chipset and 790FX Spider platform gaming chipset, exclusively made for AMD processors. With godly onboard graphics and its famed Hybrid Graphics mode, the 780G was set to rule. With the possibility that Nehalem may not have nVidia GPU SLi support, 790FX is possibly the only solution for performance seeking gamers, and it too has lived upto the performance seeker’s expectations. But… It has had the sad fate of not having a single AMD processor to match its & series Chipsets’ potential. Its all (hopefully) set to change now with these new AMD Phenom processors…