A (computer) geek's life in numbers

There are a lot of numbers in a (computer)geek's life, and below is a collection of those that I could recall from the top of my head.

• 0 : Zero, NULL, NADA, nothing, yet half of everything in the world of computers.


• 1 : Zero's complement, and with it the basis of all there is.


• 7 : socket seven, the home of processors for long, and at a time when the PC was spreading like wildfire in households.


• 8 : bits in a byte.


• 168 : The number of contact pins on a SDRAM DIMM.


• 184 : The number of contact pins on a DDR SDRAM DIMM.


• 240 : The number of contact pins on a DDR2 SDRAM DIMM.


• 370 : The socket of the venerable Pentium 3 processor.


• 462 : The number of pins in the home of the Athlon and Duron processors for long.


• 478 : The socket of the good part of the life of the Pentium 4 Processor.


• 754 : The socket of the original Athlon64 processor and later for value class semprons.


• 775 : The socket of the bad part of the life of the Pentium 4 Processor. And that of the promising "Core 2" conroe processors.


• 939 : The socket of choice for enthusiast grade Athlon64 processors for about two years, now replaced by the socket AM2.


• 1024 : The one grand for geeks.


• 7900 : (nVidia GeForce, GTX)As of now, one of the most powerful graphics cards on the market, and one will soon be inside my machine :D.


• 9800 : (ATi Radeon, pro/XT)The card that was last the clearcut winner of the performance race. Not so clear competetive offerings since then.

This post is just an attempt to reaffirm my geekdom, as I have been doing some pretty ungeeky stuff for the last few days. :~|