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With tech constantly changing and upgrading, what do you see as the future of the PC? Will the traditional layout of cpu, gpu, ram, and hard drive stay or will we see a blending of multiple pieces? As tech gets closer to the physical max speed of current materials do you think there will be an evolution into new exotic metals to allow data speeds to go higher then what they currently are able to???

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modular parts will always be a thing. 

 

HDDs are going to be moving to HAMR soon, using new techniques to cram more onto the platters. 

 

i'm dreaming of multiphase transistors for use in CPUs of the future. 

companies are already using more than just silicon now, i've heard of them using germanium lately. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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as it stands, i dont see clock speeds going up much more, at the speed today's cpus run on (3+ GHz) electricity flows less than 10cm.

 

i do expect to see major changes in how a pc gets built. looking at the fury nano, the DESKTOP GTX980 in laptops, the crazy overclocking on skylake (on air!) and so on.

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also, RAM and storage will continue to explode.

with skylake xeons we can *theoretically* get up to 6TB ram in one machine. (thats the max linux can handle btw. another really interesting thing to follow up.)

 

theres been mentions of insane SSD capacity, and insane HDD capacity as well.

2016 is also going to be a really interesting year storage wise, because SSDs seems to be getting cheaper and cheaper in terms of gigs/dollar as they evolve.

while hard drives seem to be getting stuck in terms of gigs/dollar with the sweet spot being 2TB (ignoring seagate's 3TB drives, i still dont trust those...)

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as it stands, i dont see clock speeds going up much more, at the speed today's cpus run on (3+ GHz) electricity flows less than 10cm.

 

i do expect to see major changes in how a pc gets built. looking at the fury nano, the DESKTOP GTX980 in laptops, the crazy overclocking on skylake (on air!) and so on.

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also, RAM and storage will continue to explode.

with skylake xeons we can *theoretically* get up to 6TB ram in one machine. (thats the max linux can handle btw. another really interesting thing to follow up.)

 

theres been mentions of insane SSD capacity, and insane HDD capacity as well.

2016 is also going to be a really interesting year storage wise, because SSDs seems to be getting cheaper and cheaper in terms of gigs/dollar as they evolve.

while hard drives seem to be getting stuck in terms of gigs/dollar with the sweet spot being 2TB (ignoring seagate's 3TB drives, i still dont trust those...)

i'm thinking the clock speeds will creep up over time, but we won't see a massive jump again unless we have another GHz war, which is unlikely because AMD is playing catch-up lately.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Things will continue to get smaller, more powerful and more energy efficient. 

 

Standards will change over time but that process is a slow one - especially if the current standard holds no limitation for it's function (PCIe gen 3 for example).

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i'm thinking the clock speeds will creep up over time, but we won't see a massive jump again unless we have another GHz war, which is unlikely because AMD is playing catch-up lately.

or until quantum CPUs become usable and useful for the general public. (which is probably a long way off)

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i'm thinking the clock speeds will creep up over time, but we won't see a massive jump again unless we have another GHz war, which is unlikely because AMD is playing catch-up lately.

well, they may still go up a bit, but a teacher i had in college came with an interesting fact.

 

if we ever get 30GHz parts, a signal wont make it from one side of a cpu die to the other within one clock pulse.

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well, they may still go up a bit, but a teacher i had in college came with an interesting fact.

 

if we ever get 30GHz parts, a signal wont make it from one side of a cpu die to the other within one clock pulse.

what about a CPU equivalent of RAID 0? (that's actually quite an interesting concept, it just popped into my head)

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what about a CPU equivalent of RAID 0? (that's actually quite an interesting concept, it just popped into my head)

thats called multi-threaded workloads.

and some devs dont understand how nice it is to have that...

 

you cant *really* use two cores together to do one thread, because in a lot of cases the next calculation requires the outcome of the last one.

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well, they may still go up a bit, but a teacher i had in college came with an interesting fact.

 

if we ever get 30GHz parts, a signal wont make it from one side of a cpu die to the other within one clock pulse.

Could work with photons though. (But that is far off)

 

I think most GPUs will become irrelevant since CPU graphics cores will be that good. 

 

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Could work with photons though. (But that is far off)

 

I think most GPUs will become irrelevant since CPU graphics cores will be that good. 

i think you're wrong there, on both lines.

 

- electricity *theoretically* flows at the speed of light, so that wont solve the latency issue.

photons may end up being better heat-wise, and such also power-wise.

 

- cpu graphics will improve MINDBLOWINGLY, but so will dedicated GPUs, and them being on a seperate die, entirely to themselves will ALWAYS be a benefit that integrated graphics/APUs will have issues with.

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well, they may still go up a bit, but a teacher i had in college came with an interesting fact.

 

if we ever get 30GHz parts, a signal wont make it from one side of a cpu die to the other within one clock pulse.

if we get to 30GHz it might have a further distance to travel.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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i think you're wrong there, on both lines.

 

- electricity *theoretically* flows at the speed of light, so that wont solve the latency issue.

photons may end up being better heat-wise, and such also power-wise.

 

- cpu graphics will improve MINDBLOWINGLY, but so will dedicated GPUs, and them being on a seperate die, entirely to themselves will ALWAYS be a benefit that integrated graphics/APUs will have issues with.

The movement of electrons in typical conductors is actually extremely slow. 

As for GPUs, I think that people who won't mind playing games at 1080p/whatever will be the standard resolution in a few years, would rather save a few $$$. That is not to say GPUs will die, just that anything below a GTX 950 class GPU will be totally irrelevant. 

 

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we cant change the speed of light. and unless we find a way to make electricity flow faster, we're out of luck.

microwormholes in our CPU.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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All I really plan to do in the future with my PC (or at least the foreseeable future) is add more storage and upgrade my graphics solution. Come 2016, I dont know if this 770 will be able to keep up :( My 4690K will hopefully get me a good 5 more years if Im lucky.

I wanna see what the Pascal scene will look like because that will likely be my next upgrade, and I wanna add another SSD and HDD.

 

In terms of tech I hope to see coming -

VR (for fuck sake Ive been waiting forever)

New camera stuff (like new sensors and cool tech)

More innovative home based technology

More high pixel density, efficient, and slim laptops (although the current rMBP kinda nails them all)

I want 3D printing to become more affordable, definitely seems like something that every household should be able to have

More power electric sports cars, and normal ones cuz people are into that kinda stuff

 

Ill come back to this if I see it catches on and I think of more stuff.

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Honestly? If you look at the evolution of the PC over the last 40 years nothing has really changed drastically. Monitors have changed for more than the computer itself. So I see peripherals having a larger impact on our hobby than the next processor.

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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All I really plan to do in the future with my PC (or at least the foreseeable future) is add more storage and upgrade my graphics solution. Come 2016, I dont know if this 770 will be able to keep up :( My 4690K will hopefully get me a good 5 more years if Im lucky.

I wanna see what the Pascal scene will look like because that will likely be my next upgrade, and I wanna add another SSD and HDD.

In terms of tech I hope to see coming -

VR (for fuck sake Ive been waiting forever)

New camera stuff (like new sensors and cool tech)

More innovative home based technology

More high pixel density, efficient, and slim laptops (although the current rMBP kinda nails them all)

I want 3D printing to become more affordable, definitely seems like something that every household should be able to have

More power electric sports cars, and normal ones cuz people are into that kinda stuff

Ill come back to this if I see it catches on and I think of more stuff.

I like the 3D printing idea:) like have prices drop to the point you are able to buy a regular printer and a 3D printer. I would love to see homes being able to print there own furniture ect.

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i think the full tower pc will die out because people will want smaller computers like in like 25 years apu's and igpu's might be strong enough to run games. this will eventually lead to stuff like the gigabyte brix style machines.

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