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Can't keep up!

  • 01-04-2006 10:33pm
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    Is it just me or is the rate at which AMD and Intel keep announcing rapidly improved processors increasingly fast?, I mean, the 64-bit phenomenon is only a couple of years old, then in the last 12 months or so we started to see the mainstream integration of dual core processors (x2's and Intel D's - which still don't have many applications which utilise them yet), now I hear that Intel and AMD are to launch Quad-core processors in the beginning of 2007.. phew..

    I finally upgraded to a socket 939 motherboard at christmas, complete with an AMD 3700 and 2gb of pc3200 RAM (after much delaying), now looking at what's to come in terms of technology, did I waste my money or what?!, how can anyone build a system in the near future that has any sort of short-term future proofness?.

    Now, I'm aware it won't be essential for the average home user to upgrade to quad core processors and I'm all for advances in technology, but still, the rate at which new processor technology (not to mention graphics card) seems to be going at a speed never seen before!, I can't keep up financially! :( ...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Yeah it is crazy how fast things are going nowadays.

    The first PC I got was a 386DX-25. The 386 was introduced in 1986, and the 25MHz version came out in 1988. I got the PC in 1992, and it was still pretty high spec then - even though the 486 had came out 3 years before, it was still very expensive. 286s were still quite common at the time, especially in business PCs. CD-ROMs had also been around since the mid-80s but they too were insanely expensive at the time, so we didn't bother with them for a while either. Things went so nice and slowly back then.


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