Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Is Hardware coming to a Standstill ?

I recently decided to move my "ailing" 2 year old PC into a smaller chassis in order for me to kick it into life again . ( it now lives under my coffee table downstairs) The processor is a Q6600 Quad Core and the GFX card is an Nvidia 8800GTX . Both of these main components are older tech by today's standards, yet performance wise, they still more than hold their own when compared to whats out at the moment. It got me to thinking...

Whereby in previous years, a 2 year gap in hardware specs would present a significant performance difference, the Q6600 is still selling and the technology behind the GFX card hasn't changed to a point of revolutionising their performance.

So is the race finally coming to an end ? It has been said for years that PC tech will reach a point whereby it wont get much faster than what it is ( unless you are an overclocking liquid cooling nut) and this has certainly become more noticeable in my recent experiences.

Emm
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  1. IMHO the race will never end, but it will change tac, with entertainment and gaming moving away from consoles / hard copy DVD’s into OnLive and downloads. It will all be about bandwidth and local / remote hard disk space/content.

    You don’t need greater CPU speed/ GFX cards if you aren’t rendering/processing locally, but the bot network that does the processing and the pipe you download from must grow exponentially to fulfill these new requirements.

    So the path of change will be subtle, and in the end we are all sitting behind dumb terminals integrated within our TV’s and completely separate from the nuts n’ guts of the technology.

    In summation all you will need is a 80” TV and fiber optic cabling direct to the exchange.

    The race continues just not at home ;)
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