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no way Lorn.
as long as applications require more processing power, there will be bigger computers.
the question is. What's the final goal?
Years ago, a quad processor computer was something only some university or government computer labs had.
Now we are talking about getting one for home or office
Right now you can get the Core 2 Quad Q6600 for $848 over at Fry's Electronics and it comes with a free motherboard. I know it's not a complete box but hey, that's a pretty good start. Here are your choices:
EVGA nForce 680I SLI
Abit AW90-MAX
ASUS P5B Deluxe
I might have that Abit model wrong since it was hard to read the small print from a bad scan.
no way Lorn.
as long as applications require more processing power, there will be bigger computers.
I have no doubts about that. I'm just saying at some point the technology will be good enough to provide sufficient power to the average joe for longer than a couple of years.
The system that I am typing this on right now is over four years old and still kicks ass. It's nowhere near as fast as my newest system that I built back in February of '06 but I still have no problems using this atm.
6 years?
you know that's impossible Kamal
the gear will turn useless on 3 years, maybe 4
No bro its totally doable. My old rig is a P4 3.2 ghz with a gig of ram and a 37 gb raptor HD. I'm just gonna dump in another 1 gb and it should be good for another year at least. Heck its lightning fast when I installed vista and the 6800 ultra took care of all the eye candy.
So if a single core P4 can run (on its 4th year right now), the quad core boxes will be hardpressed to be phased out even with the best of apps, esp if they are designed to pull the best out of the system.
Jib says:
he isnt worth the water that splashes up into your asshole while you're shitting
Originally posted by ace_dl
Guys and Gals, I have to hurry/leaving for short-term vacations.
I won't be back until next Tuesday, so if Get Carter is the correct answer, I would appreciate of someone else posts a new cap for me
I have no doubts about that. I'm just saying at some point the technology will be good enough to provide sufficient power to the average joe for longer than a couple of years.
Huh? The average joe will use it for emails, web browsing, word processing etc etc... all that will quite happily run on a 1ghz Athlon with 512meg. That's 7 years or so old.
^^ True, we just upgraded the oldest PC in our office and the dude only used it for excel and email. the machine was a Pentium III 600 with 512 mb ram on a 20 gb hd
Jib says:
he isnt worth the water that splashes up into your asshole while you're shitting
Originally posted by ace_dl
Guys and Gals, I have to hurry/leaving for short-term vacations.
I won't be back until next Tuesday, so if Get Carter is the correct answer, I would appreciate of someone else posts a new cap for me
Huh? The average joe will use it for emails, web browsing, word processing etc etc... all that will quite happily run on a 1ghz Athlon with 512meg. That's 7 years or so old.
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