80 hours straight gaming is an entirely different story than 40 casual hours in a 7-day week gaming. If somebody's a gamer, a true gamer, they'll spend 40 hours a week, maybe more on gaming and weather or not that's on 1 game or 20 shouldn't make a difference. Gaming is something many people enjoy, myself, I enjoy computer hardware, tweaking computer hardware, and learning new things/discussing that hardware, which I in turn use to play a couple hours of UT2K3 at a LAN Party on the weekends. Are you going to call me "unhealthy" or tell me go "get out more" just because I enjoy doing something? If people enjoy EQ (and even I have had times where I've been addicted to the game, if only for it's conversing and fun engaging gameplay experience), let them play it. It is only those who play a game 80 hours straight that have problems.
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80 hours straight gaming is an entirely different story than 40 casual hours in a 7-day week gaming. If somebody's a gamer, a true gamer, they'll spend 40 hours a week, maybe more on gaming and weather or not that's on 1 game or 20 shouldn't make a difference. Gaming is something many people enjoy, myself, I enjoy computer hardware, tweaking computer hardware, and learning new things/discussing that hardware, which I in turn use to play a couple hours of UT2K3 at a LAN Party on the weekends. Are you going to call me "unhealthy" or tell me go "get out more" just because I enjoy doing something? If people enjoy EQ (and even I have had times where I've been addicted to the game, if only for it's conversing and fun engaging gameplay experience), let them play it. It is only those who play a game 80 hours straight that have problems.
Yes, the 533MHz FSB P4s will work on Canterwood chipset-powered motherboards, but the performance gain versus an actual Canterwood CPU is very minor.