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Variable
10-26-2004, 11:17 PM
I havn't looked at any computer hardware in a while but today at work we were looking a putting in a box with a terrabyte or two of HD space and were looking at SATA drives. I started looking at hardware at Tom's. I saw the new nvidia 64 bitmobo with built in 4 port sata, onboard FIREWALL!, 3 of the new PCI slots. Then I was looking at double rate dvd-r's and the the latest CPU's and I was thinking we have some pretty amazing leaps in hardware! I really don't see normal people apps pushing these machines too much. But pretty amazing consumer level gear.
Mark Miller
10-27-2004, 10:42 AM
What I find amazing is how cheap some of this stuff is getting [comparitivly]
I just can't but anymore because I just don't have the room.
I also decided not to replace my main box until Longhorn comes out.
I bought a higher end digital camera about 2 years ago [Sony dsc 707] and today I can by twice the camera at half the size and half the price.
Hp has also got this new unit out with a 160gb removable second hardrive, amazing.
Mark :)
PrntRhd
11-02-2004, 12:11 AM
Variable,
Check out this new setup, released earlier today:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/01/review_i925xe/

It is new 3.46 GHz Intel P4 with 2MB of L3 cache, 1066 MHz FSB and a new Asus board. It is expensive today but just wait 9 months and it may not be out of reach.
saphalline
11-02-2004, 05:10 AM
Ooh yeah! I've been waiting for Intel to up the FSB to 1066MHz. And it's nice to finally see DDR2-533 being used to its full potential. As nice as Intel's 900 series chipsets are with PCI-E, I never agreed with their decision to prematurely use DDR2. But now it's justified. Yay!
Variable
11-03-2004, 09:36 PM
Nice motherboard. For now AMD is still the cheapest so any mobo I buy will probably have a AMD chip on it.
My machine at work runs fine and has a lot of load on it; 3 monitors, 20 odd apps running at once and its only a p3 500 ;p
I wonder what consumer level apps will push these new mobo,RAM, CPU combos with hardware and software running at 64 bit? I think the hardware is fast outpacing the software. I dont see hardware slowing down anytime soon, can the apps keep up I wonder? I think in a few more years AI and voice recognition may actually have enough brute force to make these things actually work well.