Computex 2007 Previews New Hardware 25
MojoKid writes "The always humongous Computex show in Taipei is just about to go full swing and previews of some interesting new technologies are already springing up. Intel's new generation of P35 and X38 motherboard chipsets have spurred a bunch of new products, like this new SFF PC from Shuttle and the IX38 QuadGT motherboard from Abit that looks promising. Of course AMD has their new platform arsenal on display as well, like these 690G motherboards from Gigabyte. All told, Computex looks to be a tidal wave of tech for PC geeks."
Re:wow wow wowy! (Score:3, Insightful)
Sheesh, half of my fiddling time with new computers is finding ways to get the power consumtpion down. My flatmate just inherited a top-end gaming rig (Core2 Extreme, 2GB "gamer" RAM, 8800GTX, 2xRaptors in RAID0) and is saying it only seems marginally faster than his previous Celeron/1GB/6600GT which had a lower power draw at full pelt than this new hulk does at idle. Most users have already stopped noticing (miniscule) speed improvements and only believe a machine is faster because the marketing says it is and the numbers are bigger. The only upgrades they're likely to notice are upping their RAM to a usable figure from the puny defaults usually offered by OEM's and installing an aftermarket GFX card if they've just bought a game and are wodnering why is runs like shit on their "256MB" onboard graphics.
Typically it's only power users that need, let alone notice, this stuff these days. I still reckon that if you gave 90% of home/business computer users a 1GHz P3 and 2GB of RAM they'd be happy as Larry and his whole darned family.