welcomeall General Ideas for Computers (and games)

[Bendy_BSD]

General topic just to relax and just talk about GPUs, CPUs, PCI-E devices, etc. 
Hell, even games for all that matters.

 

I encourage ideas and opinions (don't forget criticism.)

 

[KawaiiRaven]

Idea #1 

I think that portable GPUs should be worked on and thunderbolt 3 should be a standard. Enough of intergrated crapics already! Right now it’s either proprietary or more expensive than existing GPUs. 

 

 

[Bendy_BSD]

1 minute ago, KawaiiRaven said:

Idea #1 

I think that portable GPUs should be worked on and thunderbolt 3 should be a standard. Enough of intergrated crapics already! Right now it’s either proprietary or more expensive than existing GPUs. 

 

 

Agreed.   But I think that there should be a PCIE card that lets you add two MXM GPUs so you can have two 980m's in sli in a single slot without a riser card.  Like for example the NVIDIA GTX 690 where it has two GPUs on a single PCB. 

[Drak3]

960 Evo in a TB3 stick style enclosure.

[Bendy_BSD]

Just now, Drak3 said:

960 Evo in a TB3 stick style enclosure.

*POP!* Noice. 

[Coaxialgamer]

there is one  thing that confuses me. My mind just cannot grasp it . External usb gpus.

 

Also , i want faster and cheaper alternatives to the 40 year old 74AS and 74F logic chips...

[Bendy_BSD]

Just now, Coaxialgamer said:

there is one  thing that confuses me. My mind just cannot grasp it . External usb gpus.

hmmmm..... same here.
Don't ask. 

I have no clue.

I like external GPUs but that short dangly thingy is NOT an eGPU  (well, technically it is but it doesn't count in my books. :P)

[TheRandomness]

21 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

there is one  thing that confuses me. My mind just cannot grasp it . External usb gpus.

-snip-

Also , i want faster and cheaper alternatives to the 40 year old 74AS and 74F logic chips...

This is basically just a really small and cheap chip that creates the display but does nothing else with that. It gets all the data and power from the USB port. Though I wonder what'd happen if you ran GPU-Z on that.

[Drak3]

2 hours ago, Ripmin-PSN said:

hmmmm..... same here.
Don't ask. 

I have no clue.

I like external GPUs but that short dangly thingy is NOT an eGPU  (well, technically it is but it doesn't count in my books. :P)

 

2 hours ago, Coaxialgamer said:

there is one  thing that confuses me. My mind just cannot grasp it . External usb gpus.

-Risu Snip!-

 

Also , i want faster and cheaper alternatives to the 40 year old 74AS and 74F logic chips...

They're just cheap methods of adding a video out when there is none available on your (typically notebook or netbook) machine, either due to the lack of one or the one(s) available are all in use.

[KawaiiRaven]

Also, I don’t get the thin and light trend. Why carry dongles (that are heavy and bulky) to shave half a pound and half an inch?

 

Are laptops really that heavy in a backpack where they need to be that light? Something you carry around should be durable, even if it’s a little heavy. I get size, a 17 inch laptop won’t fit well on a coffee table or classroom desk but the trend towards thin and light seems like it has too much compromise. I can handle carrying 5 pounds.