I am just wondering why people put the specifications of their hardware into their signatures.
Why do people do that?
Does it make any difference to a "mplayer won't compile"-problem? Or is it just a status symbol? (In that case, of course, nearly ALL of you could go to hell, for I am owning a dual-CPU system
)
Why do people show us CPU-frequencies? Or sizes of RAM? It doesn't make any difference that would be of greater importance. Also, a fast CPU (or two fast CPUs
) don't make a good computer. A bad mainboard burns much performance of a CPU, a bad power supply may burn the CPU itself
And why do people show us their graphics cards? I know some people owning a Superdruber3D-II or so, and use those nifty 14"-Monitors... E.g. for gambling, where is the difference if I play tuxracer on a 500Mhz or a 2.5GHz-CPU? Also, harddrives are a very much limiting factor, if you got an IDE-disk, forget it, SCSI is much faster. And so on and so on.
But you won't find such specs. You'll always find: Graphics card, CPU, RAM. But why?