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You weren't kidding about the cereal.

I don't know what you're implying :p

I actually don't have a myspace and have a total of 0 pictures on my facebook, which I rarely use.

I find this whole post shocking.

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You need a lesson in Dropbox.

...and AJ earns +1 internetz.

Well, I WOULD weld all my wires that I would have otherwise needed soldered but I just don't have a welder

It wouldn't have the same power as a laptop and never will (ok, maybe a 5-10 year old laptop). Just like laptops will never be as powerful as desktops of the same vintage.

That is so deep, Blue.

Dann, you fail at understanding

As it stands right now, there's sites like http://hwbot.org/ that encourage people to perpetually break world records (rather pointless since newer, better, faster chips are released) where you submit information and "proof" about your computer to be ranked. No program needed, although one could be made, full detection might be difficult. People are then ranked based upon information. There's a lot of overclock as far as you can go no matter the volts or temperatures but there's not much support for reasonable, 24/7 usage overclocking where voltages and temperatures DO matter as well as underclocking. This seems to be an untapped niche that would have a large fanbase if done properly. That's what this would be. A place where people would go to compete while staying inside voltage specifications for hardware.

Without getting into a schooling lesson, with top overclocking, there's a lot of variables that people can't control and IMO, world records are farces and people are just lucky with the type of chip and hardware that they get that allow them to overclock that far. You can take 1 model of chip, even the same stepping, take 50 different batches of that chip and they can all behave differently. Different batches/chips have different VID's (default voltages that the manufacturer says is guaranteed to run at) which can vary a LOT and thus vary the voltage the chip requires to run which can affect the peak overclock. It would take some creative thinking to get a proper ranking going that takes into account GHz or MHz per mV for that VID. This would rank people more properly based upon their skill, and rely less on the luck of the draw of hardware. Now, this site wouldn't be just for CPU's, there's plenty of other hardware to incorporate as well. This site should get really specific with hardware to try and eliminate OEM changes for example, RAM. You can have a model/brand of RAM but the actual chips inside may change with that model's revision and thus the performance changes as well.