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besides the head socket; this was me in 2005 as a lowly IT analyst with an entire laboratory's worth of screens displaying glxgears 6 days per week making sure all of the workstations' display drivers were working correctly before deploying them to the engineers. that 6th day was me coming in on a saturday or sunday to take advantage of the REALLY nice and expensive hardware to try out the few games that worked on linux at the time. lol