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- theuniversal, on 11/09/2009, -2/+80"Technology moves fast. According to Moore’s Law, it doubles about every 18 months."
Moore's law doesn't say that "technology" doubles every 18 months. Not even sure what that would mean. - hanexar, on 11/09/2009, -2/+56***** Dragon Age.
- dtfinch, on 11/09/2009, -2/+43Too bad you can only boycott EA games once.
If I see Dragon Age on a store shelf, I'll try to quietly place some of the surrounding games in front of it. - mattypantsmaxx, on 11/09/2009, -0/+39so moores law is no longer just for transistors??
guess it was amended - kentrung, on 11/09/2009, -1/+32***** DRAGON AGE
- bigmahlman, on 11/09/2009, -0/+28Moore's Law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.[1] Rather than being a naturally-occurring "law" that cannot be controlled, however, Moore's Law is effectively a business practice in which the advancement of transistor counts occurs at a fixed rate.[2]
-wiki - minorthreat, on 11/09/2009, -0/+26"Buy low voltage RAM. Some processors will be damaged if the RAM’s voltage is too high and buying low voltage RAM generally doesn’t cost anything more than RAM with higher voltage. This will also ensure that your rig will be able to take on new series of processors."
lol.... the dude has no idea what he's talking about. I wonder if he realizes that your CPU and RAM run on different voltages? Low-voltage memory is for saving every bit of power you can or allowing you to get fairly large over clock gains when you apply "normal" voltage. - Spo8, on 11/09/2009, -1/+24I love the misuse of moore's law.
WE WILL HAVE TWICE AS MANY ROBOTS AND THEY WILL BE TWICE AS FAST.
EASILY. - silver26, on 11/09/2009, -0/+23Here's a tip ... don't buy so much crap. Technology is great, but it's a money pit, especially if you feel the need to buy the newest gimmick.
- rushover, on 11/09/2009, -1/+21What if the entire store is taking it up the ass from Dragon Age like Digg is?
- xOrion73x, on 11/09/2009, -0/+13Add this filter to Adblock-
http://cotnet.diggstatic.com/img/skins/*
You get a black frame, but it isn't nearly as annoying. - danlscarlos, on 11/09/2009, -1/+13"5) CPU first, GPU later. A high end video card is no good if your processor can’t support it. This is called “bottlenecking.” It is always a good idea to invest more in your CPU than your video card. Hopefully, you will also be able to upgrade to newer video cards in the future that the CPU can adequately support."
No, not entirely true, it depends on what you are going to use your computer for.
For instance, most enthusiast gamers should invest more on the GPU than on the CPU. - MrFrostyUK, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10The man in this article does not know what he is talking about... Especially when it comes to computers
- GalacticRerun, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10I like to wait for new stuff to come out so I can get the old stuff cheaper.
- atchon, on 11/09/2009, -1/+10What you don't enjoy having a bloodied scarred face looking at you while your on digg?
- GreenBlu32, on 11/09/2009, -1/+8Here's a way to be future proof: drive a car. Car technology never doubles or else we would've had flying cars in the 50's.
- tgc1, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6There is NO SUCH THING as future proof.
- ddev, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6You did realize that there is time period when you can take it back to the store and they will give you the new one?
I think it is about two weeks but I'm not sure, look it up. - inactive, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Way to open up healed wounds.
- happyimbecile, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5So the only thing keeping your from killing yourself is that fact that you have a marginally better phone that a friend?
You must lead quite a life. - HonoredMule, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5What a load of useless bollocks. None of this garbage has anything to do with being "future proof." What does is using open standards, formats, and protocols, and keeping sufficient control over any 'cloud' services you use so that when it's time to take another step on the upgrade treadmill and the /corporate/ landscape of technology has inevitably changed, you don't have to recycle your whole life in the transition. That and a solid, redundant automated backup strategy for anything you care about. Losing everything in the present is pretty disruptive to your future.
I especially take exception to the computers section...that's just absolute hogwash.
1) First off, cheaping out on your power supply is a quick ticket to starting over from scratch. Second, why in hell would you start with a cheap prebuilt when the motherboard is the most important and difficult to transition component? Start by cheaping out on all the rest by all means, but buy a damn good motherboard the first time with all the features and capacity (usb/sata ports, pcie lanes, etc.) you can anticipate needing. You'll curse yourself later if you don't and have to rebuild the whole damn thing (including OS re-installation) AND buy an additional unexpected component after deciding it's time for a second video card or other newer component. A prebuilt is a surefire way to get base components with the least extensibility and longevity possible for your buck.
2) See #1.
3) For those of us who actually have uses for multiple machines, no *****. Did you think we were just going to throw it in the trash? For the rest of you who aren't hardcore geeks, give or sell that crap away to someone who can actually put it to use. If nothing else, give it to charitable programs.
4) Cheap ram is the fastest route to terminally unstable computers. What's more, decent RAM in good quantities is still one of the cheapest components you need. If you want to save, start out with the lowest capacity at a good price point (probably still over 2 gigs).
5) I've got computers with processors from the stone age that work marvelously alongside semi-recent video cards. 90% of what we do with out computers, including gaming, doesn't actually tax the CPU that much. Unless you're doing a lot of transcoding or professional work, make the CPU last a good long time, because it can.
Bottom line: instead of playing Mr. Dress-up with your hardware, you can actually save a lot more by building a well-planned out machine from the start. Even with the pace of technology, a decently built computer at a moderate price point should still perform well for at least 5 years with only minor, low-pain and moderate-to-low-cost upgrades.
And if the actual point of the article was just about getting the most for your frugal buck, Nick in the site comments had it right. Just buy previous generation mid-to-top-range stuff. The whole article was a glorified gadget/hardware buyer's guide from someone clearly *not* in the know, spewing a few generalized "truisms." The author might as well have said "If you know a lot about computers and the technology industry, you can make and plan better purchases." Here's another shocker: research actually yields insight in all kinds of fields, careers, societies, etc. - dabestdefense, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Your caps lock is on.
- MacParrot, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Unless I'm mistaken (and I frequently am as are most people), you can return it with 14 days. Just bring it back and get the newer one.
- spatty, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5you = dugg
article = buried
JOIN ME FELLOW DIGGERS! WE MUST BURY THIS SCOURGE - ethamajin, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Yeah, but the comments section is still squished and doesn't expand with the window. Lame.
- Royish, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Buried. pretty sure kokugamer tried to get a name as close to kotaku as possible.
- TalahRama, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4You also need more gigafloppies so your turbohertz aren't bottlenecked.
- ramalingamn, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4i believed Moore's law and started transistor radio company and became insolvent.
- LarkStew, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4That's a most excellent bit of stealth protesting advice.
- MacParrot, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Wouldn't that just be considered a fresh wound?
- superkendall, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4"Consider buying a cheap prebuilt and only upgrade the components you want."
I've done this before. This is true only if your time has no value. - inactive, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3Is that the phrase? I'm bad with electronics, so...
- jjustin01, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3Since when did Digg become the new MySpace?
***** Dragon Age! - deweyhewson, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4I logged in just to post that. Glad to see a few other people are on the ball.
Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every 18 months, as bigmahlam posted above. It says nothing about technology in general, and definitely doesn't say anything remotely similar to "technology will double every 18 months"!
Seriously, someone takes the time to write an article and they don't have 30 seconds to look that up? - D4RK354B3R, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3This.
A $100 CPU will not bottleneck a $200 Graphics Card - DCstewieG, on 11/09/2009, -2/+4http://coreygilmore.com/blog/2008/10/23/per-site-c ...
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} - 4NDr01D, on 11/09/2009, -2/+4VINYL RECORDS
still work even without electricity (depending on your record player)
they have more information than DVD's
and still sound amazing! - krisrm, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Heh, I buy most of my hardware and games a year or two after release (with some noteable exceptions...); that way, I can always play everything on max settings, and I end up paying probably half the money :)
- TexMexRex, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2Reads like an 8th graders pop quiz for a kid who did not do the reading assignment.
- Frostek, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Some misses in this article, but a few good hits.
The important thing is that even the misses will get you thinking about areas you would concentrate in for your own personal circumstances. Dugg. - D4RK354B3R, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2In general, what I've stated is true.
Obviously when you're doing stuff like what you've mentioned, my statement if false, but when you're tinkering with settings to minimize the strain on the GPU, you're bound to bottleneck any CPU provided that the application is intense enough.
The point is, for any actual gamer with a budget, the GPU is going to get bottlenecked first if the CPU and GPU are within the same price range (such as both of them being ~$100) - Truedirt, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2How in hell do they come up with these misguiding articles' snippets? The Moore Law in question has nothing to do with the average technology user in terms of what thet can do to stay on top of it.
- alarchy, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2What do you mean "more information?" 45 minutes per side is not more than DVDs (512 minutes of uncompressed audio per layer).
Plus they have poor stereo imaging, and hiss/click/pop - even if they may sound a little warmer. - HeizeusX, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Death is pretty future-proof.
- Ommatidia, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Even this is not always true under certain circumstances. For your example, playing a CPU-intense game like Crysis at very low resolutions. So little strain is put on the GPU, the CPU can be the first to hit its limit.
The point is that you can't make a simple rule like that. Their are just too many variables (resolution, AA, AF, DirectX version, GPU processing power, amount of GPU RAM, CPU processing power, system RAM, and each games' specific usage of each). - ultrafez, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Really? I hadn't tested it, but it looked legit. I'll see if I can fix it.
- gwatzn, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Reddit's starting to look better every moment I have to look at that ugly mug.
- daphaze, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1absolute garbage ***** top 5 hugely vast ambiguous notions about the future. Idiot Speak
- tduffy31, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1completely unrelated but does anyone else see the annoying ad on either side of the page that made this digg page smaller. its really ***** annoying
- cfuse, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Double technology is when a douchebag has a bluetooth headset in both ears.
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