Any startling technologies next door?

[edyzmedieval]

I want to go all out since my rig has been sold by my dad, so I only have a notebook as a computer.

By startling I mean something like a 2xquad core and things like that. I don't want to pay for something and the next month some super tech comes and renders my thing useless (figuratively speaking). I prefer to wait and get the serious tech before I buy.

So, any rumours?

[Lemur]

Hmm, there's supposed to be a new videocard-to-screen connection coming down the pike. Haven't seen it in the wild, however. Worse, it's not clear whether it's going to be DisplayPort or UDI, or whether both will fail since HDMI is kinda working okay.

There are a very few games that can take advantage of four cores, such as Supreme Commander, and perhaps the Source Engine. I'm not aware of any game in development that can use eight cores. I guess you could use the box to double as a furnace, however.

Some of the stuff on parade right now looks a little fishy. Three-way SLI to offload physics onto a GPU. Not sure it that's in the least bit worth it.

You need to get used to the idea that something snazzy will come along after you've spent your dough on a rig. That's just the way technology works. Best is to figure out what's the best bang for your buck, and plan on upgrading every three-to-four years (or less, depending on your budget and patience).

That's my $0.02.

[Mikeus Caesar]

I was wondering this too, considering i'll be coming into a hueg amount of money soon, which i intend to build my dream monster with.

[edyzmedieval]

Intel released an Extreme Quad Core, but it's more than 1000 dollars, and reportedly AMD will come out very soon with "true quad cores" - 4 cpu's in a single silicon. Intel's quad core is 2xDual Core stuck together.

What I'm looking specifically are Quad Cores, 3 way SLI (2.3GB of video...that's just WOW) and liquid cooling. I just bought a PC Gamer issue in which details how to build your own rig.

Thoughts?

[CBR]

What I'm looking specifically are Quad Cores, 3 way SLI (2.3GB of video...that's just WOW) and liquid cooling. I just bought a PC Gamer issue in which details how to build your own rig.

Thoughts?

What do you plan on using your pc for? A lot of games hardly use dualcore yet. Maybe video encoding can use quadcore, not sure.


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[edyzmedieval]

I want a super monster that can handle me 3-4 years on super high and high games. Then I buy a new one. I resisted with a Pentium IV, 512MB RAM and Radeon X700 for 3 years, so why shouldn't I do the same with a much more powerful thing?

[CBR]

Not super tech of course but Intel are releasing their Penryn class of cpu's these days and Nvidia too with their 9xxx series of graphic cards. So anyone who plans on buying a powerful pc soon should at least wait a bit to get stuff like that.


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