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Russian Man Murders His Friend over Graphics Card Debate

posted by martyb on Thursday February 23 2017, @10:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the IRL-there-is-no-respawn dept.

Celestial writes:

A man in Russia has been convicted of murder and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for repeatedly stabbing his friend to death after a heated argument over AMD and Nvidia graphics card coolers.

[...] two Russian friends started arguing over which Graphics processor is better, nVida[sic] or AMD, and one of them ended up being killed in the most gruesome manner.

Aleksander Trofimov, 37, hacked his friend to death [in Russian] with a knife, after hitting him twice in the head. His friend, Evgeny Lylin, died instantly as a result. The murderer was so offended at the victim, he stabbed his dead body 11 times after a while.

The incident took place in the quite[sic] town of Saransk, Russia. The friends used to work together as colleagues a few years ago, and kept in touch ever since. Aleksander invited his friend for a few drinks, and both of them got drunk.

This led to the discussion about which cooler of a GPU is better [sic], nVidia or AMD. The discussion soon took a turn for the worst and Aleksander ended up murdering his friend for claiming that AMD was better.

Although the incident took place over an[sic] year ago, Aleksander got convicted and sentenced only recently. He was handed a nine and a half year prison sentence for the crime.

Additional coverage, in Russian, at http://by24.org/2017/02/17/russian_programmer_killed_and_burned_collegue_because_of_nvidia_features/.

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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday February 23 2017, @11:48AM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Thursday February 23 2017, @11:48AM (#470673) Homepage Journal

    How many times can you stab someone to death?

    11

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by mhajicek on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:51PM

    by mhajicek (51) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:51PM (#470733)

    I'm imagining the tootsie pop owl.

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  • (Score: 2) by Username on Friday February 24 2017, @06:49PM

    by Username (4557) on Friday February 24 2017, @06:49PM (#471248)

    Not sure if you can spawn camp IRL.

    • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday February 24 2017, @11:08PM

      by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Friday February 24 2017, @11:08PM (#471357) Homepage Journal

      Twice now.

      Whatta we got here? A cup a haters? A cup a haters?

      I've got one word to describe you, and I'm gonna spell it out for ya S A W F T...

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