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Building my childhood dream PC

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Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by zamadatix »

intrasight wrote: post #9

Honest question: Will building a high-end PC still be a thing in 10 years? I've built all of mine in the last 20 years. Just finished my first AMD build. But I don't think it'll be possible or allowed after a few more CPU iterations. Sure, you'll be able to do builds with the CPU tech available up to when it stops, but I seriously doubt that the cutting-edge chip tech ten years hence will be available to hobbyists. T…

I think this hinges on what one considers "cutting edge CPU tech". Is it "newer and better CPU tech than before" or "the highest end CPU tech of the particular day".

If the latter ("the highest end CPU tech of the particular day"), I think it's going to keep getting harder and harder, with more top end options like the M4 Max being "prebuilt only", but I don't think it'll go to 0 options in as short as 10 years from now.

If the former ("newer and better CPU tech than before") I think it'll last even longer than the above, if not indefinitely, just because technology will likely continue to grow consistently enough that even serving a small niche better than before will always eventually be a reasonable target market despite what is considered mainstream.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by endgame »

dingnuts wrote: post #10
intrasight wrote: post #9

Honest question: Will building a high-end PC still be a thing in 10 years? I've built all of mine in the last 20 years. Just finished my first AMD build. But I don't think it'll be possible or allowed after a few more CPU iterations. Sure, you'll be able to do builds with the CPU tech available up to when it stops, but I seriously doubt that the cutting-edge chip tech ten years hence will be available to hobbyists. T…

no, you tell us why you think the next ten years are going to be different than the last thirty

One possible reason: to achieve the performance improvements, we are seeing more integrated and soldered-together stuff, limiting later upgrades. The Framework Desktop from the modular, user-upgradeable laptop company, has soldered-on memory because they had to "choose two" between memory bus performance, system stability, and user-replaceable memory modules.

If the product succeeds and the market starts saying that this is acceptable for desktops, I could see more and more systems going that way to get either maximum performance (in workstations) or space/power optimisation (e.g. N100-based systems). Then other manufacturers not optimising for either of these things might start shipping soldered-together systems just to get the BoM costs down.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by blackoil »

dingnuts wrote: post #10
intrasight wrote: post #9

Honest question: Will building a high-end PC still be a thing in 10 years? I've built all of mine in the last 20 years. Just finished my first AMD build. But I don't think it'll be possible or allowed after a few more CPU iterations. Sure, you'll be able to do builds with the CPU tech available up to when it stops, but I seriously doubt that the cutting-edge chip tech ten years hence will be available to hobbyists. T…

no, you tell us why you think the next ten years are going to be different than the last thirty

If the processor comes with builtin GPU, NPU and RAM will you be really building the system

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by charcircuit »

blackoil wrote: post #14
dingnuts wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no, you tell us why you think the next ten years are going to be different than the last thirty

If the processor comes with builtin GPU, NPU and RAM will you be really building the system

Yes, as that's already the case with phones. There is more to a phone than the SOC.

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by dfxm12 »

urda wrote: post #4

The rise of retro computing and gaming is wonderful thing.

MiSTer has been a huge boon for me in terms of saving space and having access to old computers. I have it in an old pizza box case and connected to my old IBM CRT monitor.

I have a modern mouse and mechanical keyboard, but I tried to make everything as beige as possible...

Re: Building my childhood dream PC

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Post by jwrallie »

incomplete wrote: post #6

oh man, what a trip down memory lane. i started building PCs in college with 386/486s and last year rebuilt my silly custom loop watercooled workstation. :) and yes: the supplied pc docs back then >>>>>>>> supplied pc docs today

Most of what I know about maintaining and assembling computers I learned from the pictures on my Aptiva manual when I was a kid.z
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