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Howard_Casto:
I remember those... makes me feel old. From what I understand the reason things are getting bigger is the manufacturers have run up against some physical manufacturing limits. That's why they keep throwing extra cores at the problem.... they can't make a single core much smaller.

You get screwed when you buy a laptop for gaming, which is why I'm team tower all the way. I don't understand why they can't throw an extra pcie slot in there and manufacture laptop graphics cards that fit in a... let's say 3.25" form factor, complete with heatsink or fan. Since ssds are going towards the m 2 form factor now there should be extra room.

nitrogen_widget:

--- Quote from: Grasshopper on May 12, 2020, 11:15:08 am ---You could always do what I do and upgrade your existing desktop PC.

My PC actually dates from the late 90s. However, in reality, every single component apart from the beige case and a floppy drive I keep purely for reasons of nostalgia has been replaced multiple times.

Last time I did a major upgrade I only had to buy a new motherboard, processor, and RAM. I was able to reuse every other component apart from the graphics card. Unfortunately, it used an AGP slot which had been phased out. So, for a couple of years, I made do with the GPU built into the processor.

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I'm running a $100 and some change "Modder" PC I bought off this site from someone selling lots of used PC's yrs ago. i5 i've upgraded to 16gb and expanded the storage.
I think I need to upgrade the bios in order to use a better video card, but right now it handles most games I play just fine.
Only updated ram because slicing 3d prints and editing them was torture.

nitrogen_widget:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on May 16, 2020, 01:51:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: fallacy on May 16, 2020, 01:19:38 pm ---The first graphics cards were like a nic card size with no fans. Not sure what they are doing but apparently there is no way to micro-size any of it. In another 10 years we will need different size cases too put in your now 2 foot long cards.
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Oh, we've been there already. This is CGA graphics card circa 1981:

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I think I have some of those in a tote from a 386 in the basement.
Or was it the cpu family before that?
they were called VESA card right?
this is going back a long time.

you know, every time I come here and people start posting pics of tech from the past....it makes me realize I REALLY need to clean my basement.

Howard_Casto:
The rest of my parts came in today. I'm just waiting on the case. Still gotta get a new monitor and I think I want to get some headphones as well.

pbj:
Headphones? Nah. Imma need you to do research on computer speakers and get back to me.

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