Yeah, you're a crackbaby if you can't mod one of these chips. There, I said it. I've seen these suckers and it isn't so hard. Ever heard of a razor? Hell, even a solder scraper would work.
Anyone else notice the front page desperately trying to make intels look good and amd's look bad. For a little while I shrugged it off and figured it just was due to amd's slow season... but when they are quoting spec scores, then you know it's gotten out of hand. Was it here that an article was touting how useless spec was back when apple was parading around in the the lead? Oh, and I wonder whose compiler amd was running on. In two days there have been two articles, saying "You know the two best things about amd's? Bend over." Neither has grounds as of yet. There is also an article saying, "Hey, Itanium is looking better. Look at these spec scores." This is an oversimplification, as the article isn't saying "Go out and beat up nuns to get an Itanium right now." But one day this, the next *gasp* Tom's Hardware. Hopefully, it was a lapse of reason. (Ok, two lapses, the headline that Opt's are too pricey can be understood... despite the irony that three lines down, a GOOD thing about the intel chip is that it's 'only' 500$ more than the top end Opteron).