Sunday, September 10, 2006
I've already prepared to survive with my current computer systems till after my National Service. That's another 2 years, and another 4 years in university. Currently my most powerful systems pale with today’s best systems. Currently my top 3 home systems are all running AMD.
The fastest being a Abit K7 motherboard running a FX-53 4000+ with 2Gb RAM, 2nd is my Shuttle XPC, AMD FX-53 3500+ with 1Gb Ram and thirdly, a AMD FX-51 3000+ with 1Gb Ram and a combined total of 1TB storage. They're probably nothing compared to what you can get on the market now, a FX-57 or FX-62. But my computers are sufficient for my applications.
I am about to write my dream futuristic computer. The one I am planning to get 6 years from now. The 2012 FX Quad Super-Computer. It's hard to say how computer technologies will evolve 6 years from now. But it probably wouldn’t change much from today's systems. Maybe architectural changes, slightly faster clock speeds, socket changes, buffer and cache increases but nothing too overly dramatic. I doubt you’ll see quantum computing in the next 10 years.
Most likely processors will sport more cores and parallel processing will be all the rage. I’ll be running a AMD processor, or could even switch over to Intel depending on which one is more powerful and cost-worthy then.
The current contenders today are the AMD Athlon 64 FX-64 @ 3.2GHz with a new AM2 socket and the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ 3.33GHz on a 1333MHz PSB. Probably a quad-core future equivalent. Something similar to the Foxconn C51XEM2AA nForce 590 SLI. Or maybe even a TYAN Thunder K8QSD Pro (S4882-D) quad-socket motherboard!
The 2012 FX-QUAD will have something similar to today's Quad SLI (Scalable Link Interface), the Nvidia equivalent of the GeForce 7950 GX2 with 1Gb GDDR-3 RAM. A 650watt dual PSU. DDR3 x2 RAM. Quad (4) 19-inch LCD monitors, Logitech MX-series keyboard and mouse.
FATA x4 1TB Hard drives and a SCSI 72Gb hard drive for OS and applications, amounting up to 4 Terabytes of enormous mass internal storage capacity. DVD and Blu-Ray writers and a simple close-circuit water-cooling system, and last but not least, running on the Windows Vista OS.
Talk about processing power? Dual, dual-core processors, quad hard drives on RAID 1,0, dual, dual-core GFX graphic cards, quad monitors, dual dvd-blu-ray writers. I guess 6 years from now, things would have become mainstream and everything would have become cheaper due to demand.
We'll see 6 years from now.
6:40 PM
