Computer Generations

I am truely amazed.

I ordered before memorial day, got a good system and watch the forums and the world at large and find it amazing that virtually all the hardware in my box is considered a virtual paperweight by many systems reviewers already.

I mean I use my system and it flies, the speed and power at virtually everything I do blows me and anyone I show the box too away, yet I get the impression from the web, system reviewers and even some of the regular posters here that my entire hardware selection is so yesterdays news that it barely warrants mention anymore.

It just seems so odd to have a system less than a month old and already feel like upgrading is just around the corner, sometimes I hate the technology curve.

Dave

As I said I am amazed by it, I just thought I would throw out my observations and see what others thought.

The speed at which technology seems to be advancing is staggering and I was actually quite curious what others who ordered around about the time I did thought about the new generation hardware, what their plans were around possible update, it is a rather open ended question I know, but one that has me very curious because it effects all of us, wether you ordered 3 months ago, or 3 days ago, the rate of advancement in the industry has you fairly well obsolete by the time you have installed your 5th game on your hard drive.

I mean the 9800GTX, the flagship card I chose was only released in March 2008, just under 4 months ago... and poof, now all I see is the reviewers screaming 280 GO BABY!!!

I guess I am still a little more old school, having been playing with computers since 1980 when I got my first home PC, a Commodore Vic-20... so I have been bopping around the tech biz for a while and it just seems to be that what is considered hot or not lasts only a few weeks before something else steals its thunder.

Any other thoughts?

Dave

there will always be something bigger, better, newer, and more expensive in any genre, the grass is always greener... im sure youve heard

The 9800 GTX reviewed well and was considered a better card in almost every review I read than the 9800gx2. It had significant changes of functionality, not as much difference as there was between the 7000 series and the 8000 series but nVidia has used the 800 moniker for their high end and the 600 moniker for their budget card and that same pairing exists in the 7000, 8000 and 9000 series cards thus why I considered it a flagship card.

As I said above, this thread was my curiosity about what others thought of the pace of technology and peoples thoughts on and plans for upgrades. It was and is a pure curiosity thread, nothing more. The performance of my machine is amazing, while at the same time what I see in fickle reviewers and buyers is just stunning.

I guess my point here was to start a dialogue on the pace of increasing technology.

Dave


Edited by Kliebor2 - 02 Jul 2008 at 6:13am

Yes, I suppose that makes sense. and I guess reviewers will review what is the hottest thing on the market.

Guess part of me longs for things to slow down just a little....

Maybe my old fogeyness

Dave

Like ive said a billion times, i hope DS does something to square the house for you. Then again maybe it was you that was doing bad things to your computer!!! tisk tisk!