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post #1 of 9
4/6/04 at 2:39pm
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I was just looking at pctoque.com when a pop up come and it is for www.go-l.com so I go there and they have the craziest comps and i was wondering if anyone can tell me what cacheflow technology, purram, and all this other stuff is. Thanks
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post #2 of 9
4/6/04 at 2:43pm
Sure..

It's called great marketing, and lots of BS..

Hope I was helpfull!
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post #3 of 9
4/6/04 at 2:45pm
PuRam is their marketing term for solid state hard drives. Essentially, it's a collection of flash memory adressable as an ATA device. This means that it looks like a hard drive to your OS, but performs as fast as RAM. They're really expensive (on the order of $750-1000 per GB) but offer the best performance available at what is the modern PC's most significant bottleneck, the HDD. Check out the solid state disc faq for more information.

Such drives are available from many places other than go-l, however, and as I'm sure others will be saying in this thread, as a company they're at best way too expensive, at worst a quasi-scam.
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post #4 of 9
4/6/04 at 2:46pm
As others will probably say (if they even post), I'd recommend doing a search both here and on Google for "Go-l"

All those claims that they make are just that............claims. Go-l simply rebrands Sagers and not much else (yet charges an arm and a leg).

Bottom line? Don't waste your time and/or money with these wackos.
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post #5 of 9
4/6/04 at 3:09pm
You were on pctorque.com and a popup for Go-L showed up? If so, you have need to run an anti-hijack program on your computer to remove the ad popups... I'd recommend "hijackthis". Companies pay hijack software developers to popup their ad when you go to certain websites.

I can't stand hijack programs and spyware. Another example is Alexa ratings... people brag about their alexa ratings, but to me alexa shows how many people you have surfing your site with spyware and don't know it. You can also run "adaware" and "spybot search and destroy".
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post #6 of 9
4/6/04 at 3:15pm
Yeah thats what I was thinking Adam. hijacking gives me the *(^*&^. Thank god for Mozillas popup blocker.
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post #7 of 9
4/6/04 at 3:21pm
Its too bad "hijackthis" doesn't do what it sounds like it should. Like the cyber version of a 2" pipe across the kneecaps. Spyware and hijackware should be made capital offenses. And that includes both the party that puts it out and the party that's advertised or that uses the information.

One thing for certain, Go-L's use of hijacking pop-ups is just another indication of the kind of operation is it. I hate to use the word "company" because I have doubts there's more than one person involved. "Operator" seems so much more fitting.

By the way, jasonfry, if its not clear yet that Go-L is not highly esteemed by many members of these forums, I suggest you do a search in these forums. There are lots and lots of links to follow.
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post #8 of 9
4/6/04 at 3:31pm
Assuming you can meet your minimum performance requirement (i.e. You just absolutely have to have 300fps in game XYZ), you really need to look at ppr (price-performance ratio)..

If $3000 laptop A gives you your 300 fps, but a $4000 gives you 310.. Well? Is it worth the extra grand?

In case of Go-L.. overall performance of their machines cannot be more than 10% better than any other machine of similar caliber, and some, if not most boosts can be achieved my simply OC (which I think they do to begin with).. So their overall performance vs. what you can achieve goes even lower..

..but assuming they can get 10% more performance overall.. Is the 10% performance worth to you 80% more cost?
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post #9 of 9
4/6/04 at 3:50pm
Go-L = Racists
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