Fast technology progress is crazy... U cant be happy anymore

[|_053|2]

i'm still happy with my old rig:
pentium 3 600mhz
384mb pc100
40GB maxtor
8x4x32 cdrw
geforce 4 mx420

it plays most games just fine!

i plan on keeping it a few more years

[GetCarter]

Which is why you find a hobby to occupy yourself while you wait. Like, Paintball

I'm trying to get a Tippmann Custom 98 with a Flatline Barrel at the moment. Screw PCs for the timebeing

[JSClark]

I currently have a P3 1.0GHz machine at home, that has lasted me 3 years. Maybe soon enough when money isn't an issue, I may get an AMD Athlon64? I never shop for top-notch technology

[sna]

well, I agree with u that we should buy mid range priced products.

but it is not like that..

the MAIN bottleneck in the PC is the Harddisk speed, I was almost going to buy 2 raptors 10K and suddenly I stopped after reading about the 72GB one

who dares to buy AGP cards now? u said it ur self it should last for 2-3 years, but after 6 months expect the PCI express to launch... usually we upgrade a PC and use the same old card if it is in the midrange or top range 200-500$ now I bet every 9800pro or 9700pro owner will be SAD very sad not be able to get PCI express mobos after a year or so cos they will loose a 200-500$ VGA card...

and now , for example movie editing came to home u need the fastest hardware for Mpeg4 it is never enough...

other examples follow...


every day the tech goes up we can use the PC in new things, encoding decoding , more compressing, and more resolution for AVI etc

I did try some movie editing on my old P3 with 128RAM and sloe harddisk it was horrible...

remember when we used hardware mpeg cards for VCD and MP3??? the segma designs...etc

it is not the whole PC I am talking about it is the bottleneck components that arrive and u cant resist them ...