Its simple, because for his entire budget, he can build a system that will last 5 years, and then another in 5 years when he needs to upgrade, for the same cost of maxing out today. Instead of trying to drag a 10 year old system through the mud, think of it really. When it comes to game dev, would you want to use a 10 year…
Well why not? Every decade or so there's a leap in technology worthy of upgrading for, until then what's the point if you don't need to. Also, top of the range workstations become out of date much more slowly than your average consumer type stuff. Heh, the real leap in tech will be around 15-30 years from now when…
None of what I posted is opinion. It's factual, from personal business experience as a previous system parts seller, building systems for years and actual available data. Can't comment on the quantum side of things, that was just fun really. The next jump in architecture will be 128bit but like 64bit, it takes 5 years or…
Majority of problems were related to bios rom chips, remember the Asus A8N Deluxe? That was a terrible AMD board. Overclocking is a joke anyway, why on Earth someone would want to push hardware past safe working limits is totally beyond me. About psu's: todays top quality motherboards have voltage detection and will not…
Huh, how much of that was actually faulty mainboards or just crappy air flow mixed with overclocking or crappy power supplies? A cheap case or a cheap power supply will kill the best boards and in the eyes of customers and builders they are often the first to be discounted in favor of faster hardware. A V8 strapped to a…