does anybody else feel that nothing exciting has happened for ages

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since getting really 'into' pc gaming and hardware about 5 years ago i have always liked the speed at which things progress

there is always something new/better just around the corner

new cards/chipsets/cpu

all this new tech was a steady stream

most companies had predictable release schedules - biannual gpu releases etc

but just recently it seems that the 'new' products are not really up to the same level as the changes made in previous years


i remember the performance gains i got from upgrading my 6 series geforce to a 7 series

that was immense

but after looking at the difference betweek the 8800gtx and 9800gtx
in fact... what difference - there isnt any really!

im not saying im one of those guys who snaps the latest top end *insert product here* every time a new one is released

i just think that the performance gains of old are diminishing somewhat

anybody else feel the same?
 
Not long to wait 2010 is likely to see windows 7 and a massive jump in technology.
And Nvidia is releasing there new Gfx chip in a few months time. Which by the looks of it will blow all previous gfx chips away by miles.
 
feel the exactly the same way. now i dont even bother going for the "latest tech"...done to the price and the rubbish drivers they are shipped with. somehow everything went down hill after the 7 series/ first 8 series
 
Not long to wait now before it gets interesting again, the 9800 series should have been called the 8850 like Nvidia normally do really, did not justify the whole new name for such a small difference.
 
It's all fairly boring when new things come out.
P45 chipset- little to no hype
Nvidia GTX268/280 nobody really cares about due to the price (which seems to matter mroe now than previously) also people expect less due to the joke that is the 9 series
45 nm chips- yes they're better than 65nm, but it'd be more excuting if AMD had anything to offer.

new stuff is coming, just nobody gets excited over it.
 
so i s it really worth building a new computer now or hold up for a bit? vista doesn't work the best at the moment, will windows 7 be much taxing on hardware, or if I build a system now will it be ok for a while and still run the new OS
 
collisster said:
so i s it really worth building a new computer now or hold up for a bit? vista doesn't work the best at the moment, will windows 7 be much taxing on hardware, or if I build a system now will it be ok for a while and still run the new OS
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Windows 7 will be everything Vista was meant to be I think. It should be less taxing on hardware.
 
they haev said the same specs that work with vista will be for the windows 7 aswell. so just get a cheap oem for £60 quid, to tide you over till 7.
 
Ive felt this for a very long time.

Case modding was really exciting years ago and now its like the art has died, nothing excites me anymore.

As for hardware, im still using stuff thats 4years old. I just dont seem to be interested in the latest stuff anymore.
 
Monkeynut said:
Windows 7 will be everything Vista was meant to be I think. It should be less taxing on hardware.
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they've said it will be, considering how much they hyped up Vista I'm not inclined to believe them, and the core kernel is staying pretty much the same. And they've said they're aiming to make the system requirments the same.

Though personally, MS Vista would be a fantastic OS if they took out all the unneeded bits of software, made UAC useful and stopped Windows interfering in most tasks.

Though I guess I'm asking for too much when all I really want is an operating system that is the bare minimum, with just the framework of Windows to run whatever I could usually, because it's very annoying to have to turn off all the 'features' MS tries to pack in like IE, MS spyware detctor, MS defrag etc.
 
I've felt that recently PC hardware has most focused on low-powered systems like the Atom processor or SSD drives. They're more exciting to me than any graphics card due to low power usage and performance gains to what we previously had. Systems like the Asus EEE laptops/EBox and the whole product range they are creating from companies wanting to compete.

As for Vista, I think it'll take another service pack before it's accepted by the majority of users though personally most bugs I've experienced have been fixed with SP1 and updated drivers from manufacturers.

The open source/Linux community is also exciting with the range of software coming out now especially with the popularity of Ubuntu though most probably won't see that since they'll be using Windows.
 
This is the grumpy old "i miss the old days" sort of thread, you remember all the old conversations about how tv was better when you were young (eg. teenage mutant hero turtles), its the same thing. Just like PC games havnt improved as they just make fancy lighting effects that sells (yeah bring back the 486 with discworld, that was how a game was made propperly).

Meh, you never know the new nvidia cards could be supprisingly good and some one could make a game thats actually interesting, of course MS could actually make an os based on making a good operating system opposed to having every market segment under their control...
 
rjkoneill said:
anybody else feel the same?
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Not me, going from dual to quad was a huge jump, and every GFX card or CPU I get seems to overclock better and better with every generation.

XP-M to A64 to X2 to C2D to C2Q all saw massive improvements for me.
Can say the same for all my GFX card purchases.

With regards to graphics cards though the 8800GTX was before its time and the 9 series was a real disappointment, add to the fact to much time and development has been spent on this multi gpu power hungry rubbish and not improving the core architectures of the GPU's hasn’t helped progress on current gfx tech but I feel it’s just a blip and things will get right on track with the release of these new cards.
 
Dare I suggest that the problem doesn't lie with the new tech but really what we have to do with it. I could upgrade my current system (Opteron 180@3Ghz and a 9600GT) but what the hell would I play to warrant the change?
 
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