The PC desktop of the motherboard business is dying

tonschk · 17 Feb 2013 at 08:37

Well, as already we know, AMD withdraw completely from the High-end Enthusiast segment of the motherboard business, Intel is 100% closing down its desktop motherboar production, on the other side the Server segment of the motherboard market is healthy as usual, therefore if the extintion of the PC motherboard is coming, we have no way out other than swap and start to make our selections from the range of Server motherboards makers "TYAN and Supermicro" instead of ASUS MSI and EVGA, if this transition to server mobos is unavoidable, which changes do you think TYAN and Supermicro need to do to their server range of mobos to make them more digestible to the enthusiast PC people? yes, I know the PCB layout of the Server mobos is horrible, but what we can do ?

Dom86 · 17 Feb 2013 at 15:24

Why would we have to start using server boards? Intel is going to stop making boards but not chipsets Asus Msi and Gigabyte will still be making motherboards for the home pc.

Sparx · 17 Feb 2013 at 15:27

Thread is full of fail logic.

JamieH · 17 Feb 2013 at 17:17

I found this funny. End of desktop PCs as we know it!

Blackjack Davy · 20 Feb 2013 at 03:10

Dom86 said:
Asus Msi and Gigabyte will still be making motherboards for the home pc.

....for now.

Seriously, are you people blind to whats happening in the Desktop market lately? Desktop PC sales are in decline, tablets and smartphones are in rapid ascent. Desktop PC are increasingly a niche market.

spoffle · 20 Feb 2013 at 03:17

Blackjack Davy said:
....for now.

Seriously, are you people blind to whats happening in the Desktop market lately? Desktop PC sales are in decline, tablets and smartphones are in rapid ascent. Desktop PC are increasingly a niche market.

People aren't blind to it, they just understand what this information means, which is seems you don't.

What is actually happening is that people aren't buying as many desktop PCs simply because they don't need to. Mainstream software progressed at a slower rate than mainstream hardware, so now we have much better hardware relative to the high end than we've pretty much ever had, meaning your average desktop computer lasts much longer than before, which means it's considered obsolete a lot later.

For example, anyone with a something like a Q6600 (over 5 years old now) still has a capable PC.

Admetos · 20 Feb 2013 at 03:22

Also remember applications are moving towards cloud computing, this is reducing the hardware requirements on the client machine. You may not see the full impact of this yet, but in a few years time it will become more apparent. Nvidia even have a platform that allows you to play games over the cloud, with the GPU's on the server side.

Otherwise people are using smart devices more to go-online. The money they would have spend on a PC is being used for say a tablet. Enthusiasts and people doing real computing work will always keep the PC market alive however.

Random Guy · 20 Feb 2013 at 09:04

OMG its the death of everything as we know it! PC Gaming is dying, PC Motherboards are dying, and PCs are dying! OMG and now consoles will die too because of tablets and mobiles! OMG and then mobiles will die......

Look, it's quite simple -as long as a market exists for the high-end that we love, there will always be a way to accommodate it. That may mean consolidation of product lines, new innovations and convergence of actual hardware fabrication, but at the end of the day, we will still be catered for in some way. IMO ofc.