Summer, 2011: I'm Buying A New Computer

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  1. inverse

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    No, it's a serious post.
     
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    http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Geari...ps-134083.shtml
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819117176
    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-six-c...-45nm,8708.html

    This is a SSD drive incase you dont know what one is and its the most popular one out today http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820167016
     
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    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    SSDs are nice. I have one.
     
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    So it looks like I'll be able to ... quintuple (I'm honestly just throwing a multiplier out there) the performance of my current computer by August 2011.
     
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    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    I'm going to extrapolate things a bit


    AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ ---------------Core i7 &4GHz
    2.0 GB DDR2 RAM (Don't ask me what kind, I don't know)----6GB DDR3 RAM tri chennel
    GeForce 8800 GTS---------------------------------------------------5850

    single threaded performance is roughly double. multithreaded performance is roughly quadruple
    three times the RAM with about triple the bandwidth
    5850... about three times as fast.

    so right now a highend system will be around 3 times as fast as your current. Doubling the cores on the processor, increasing performance/clock a bit and increasing clocks should put it at around 5 times the real world performance of today and that's very possible
    we'll probably be on higher end DDR3 memory in 2011, might be around 50% faster than a current, midrange kit though, so close to 5 times as fast overall in a tri channel system.
    we'll see video card performance go up over double within the next year and a half...


    overall 5fold is a fairly good guess. it'll be more in read/write intensive things though, if you go for an SSD.
    just remember, with today's computers, the slowest part is between the keyboard and the monitor.
     
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    You're an idiot Zohair :lol:

    As for the computer goes, I'm planning on building a computer for around 1200 (little less than you), and the parts that I'm looking at are actually really good, they beat the ---- of my old set up (it fried itself after running for 48+ hours, streaming on justin tv...lol). But, after reading the post about 6core cpu from Intel i9, I might actually wait till these babies come out and become stable, I have most of the crap that I'm going to put into my build, but atm am trying to hold back on motherboard and cpu.

    Prince.
     
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    Yay.

    ... I just have some pencils and random stuff between that space.

    If you're trying to say people, too bad. I don't happen to be between my keyboard and monitor.

    I remember when one gigabyte was considered massive.
     
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    Prince Zainx The Dark Prince

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    Yeah Sock, back in the early 1990's or around 2000 people didn't use to use that much space and 1GB seemed to be well not infinite but somewhere close to there space. Now a days, we use up around 1 - 2 GB of space per HD Movie we download, or if we have around 100 songs that is about 6-9GB right there (assuming that each song is around 6 - 10 MB)

    If I remember correctly there was a Wikipedia page where it predicted how much space is going to be a little space in the coming few decades / years. They started to work on a 100 Terabyte HD in 2006 and they are still perfecting it, so in 2 - 3 years expect that to come out. Then in a little bit more years expect Peta-bytes 1000<sup>5</sup> to be nothing but a single Blue Ray Movie or something else...it gets bigger and bigger every year!

    Yup..
     
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    The future is crazy.
     
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    The next FIVE Seconds are CRAZY, forget about the future. The future is far away...
     
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    Wow, I'm posting from the future in the perspective of those last posts.

    ...

    Whoa.
     
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    build your own computer :P
     
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    Thanks for the input, man.
     

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