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Last piece of Tech that made you go "WOW!!"?
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In no particular order.
Going from Athlon XP2600+ to i7 920.
Playstation 2.
Aego M 2.1s, much punchier speakers than I had expected.
As a few people, wasn't overly impressed with SSDs.
Going from Athlon XP2600+ to i7 920.
Playstation 2.
Aego M 2.1s, much punchier speakers than I had expected.
As a few people, wasn't overly impressed with SSDs.
haha yes that card blew my mind.
+1
After seeing an SSD in a laptop and also seeing this video - lol, the SSD has finished loading Windows and 50 applications before the HDD has finished loading the 'Welcome' screen
. I got the M4 128GB and it definitely does make a difference...Other *WOWs* for me would be, (from old to new): C64, Megadrive, Voodoo cards, my first decent surround system, (Sony DB940 amp and Mission FS2-AV NXTs), ADSL, C2D & 8800GTX and then upgrading from that to an i7 920 with a 5870 - I still remember starting up TF2 for the first time after that upgrade.
WTF!?!?! its about to go into administration? do you know when this will be happening because i just got a P8Z68-V from them,yes im ashamed to admit it but i had a substantial discount because of a voucher and didnt want to be without a PC whilst waiting for my RMA replacement from OCUK so i took another members advice and just bought another one(means i wouldnt need to reinstal windows because its the same model)
It was to replace the one i bought from here as i beleived it to be faulty and found out after a day that the new one didnt make a difference to the problems im having and now im waiting the 5-7 days for them to refund the cash back to the card i used to buy it,i just took it back today
You got me freaked out nowif the worst came to the worst and they did go into administration before i got the refund would it mean im screwed!?!?!
I think he ment "Game" and you mean "Pc World"??? But yes Game and Gamestation are going unless Gamestop from yank land come buy them and bail them out
What is interesting reading this thread is that for many people the last "WOW!" moment was quite a few years ago... wireless, broadband, 3dfx, really old computers from the 80s/90s etc.
Now of course the potetional reasons for this are several, and not all of them strictly relate to the quality of what is being released:
-Some got 'wowed early' and thus are difficult to impress
-Some have nostalgic feeling towards a different era in their lives when they experienced a particular bit of tech
-Maybe tech isn't developing as quickly as in years gone by at least in terms of things that could wow us. E.g. there was a time when faster cpus made an instant impression for gaming, when adding more memory made everything quicker (due to having so little of it), when a new media (e.g. CD-ROM/DVD) opened up things we couldn't really access before etc (same for internet speeds etc).
Kinda weird actually I was thinking and sorta flipped the question on its head and asked myself "Can you see any new tech coming out and actually making you go WOW, i.e. can you visualise something that could be massively improved?" and it is quite a struggle. Like most people I want more powerful hardware but even if I got a cpu/gpu 3x as fast would even that wow me?
Now of course the potetional reasons for this are several, and not all of them strictly relate to the quality of what is being released:
-Some got 'wowed early' and thus are difficult to impress
-Some have nostalgic feeling towards a different era in their lives when they experienced a particular bit of tech
-Maybe tech isn't developing as quickly as in years gone by at least in terms of things that could wow us. E.g. there was a time when faster cpus made an instant impression for gaming, when adding more memory made everything quicker (due to having so little of it), when a new media (e.g. CD-ROM/DVD) opened up things we couldn't really access before etc (same for internet speeds etc).
Kinda weird actually I was thinking and sorta flipped the question on its head and asked myself "Can you see any new tech coming out and actually making you go WOW, i.e. can you visualise something that could be massively improved?" and it is quite a struggle. Like most people I want more powerful hardware but even if I got a cpu/gpu 3x as fast would even that wow me?
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no somebody has mentioned tv i remember going from an old 14" 4:3 matsui crt tv to my LG 22" monitor with tv tuner. The difference was amazing and i bought it about 7-8 years ago AT LEAST. Im still using it now it has amazing response times and great contrast ratio. I recently only saw one tv that produced a better picture although fast movement, for example tennis (great test for tv's watching hd tennis) was better on my LG. That tv that produced better picture most of the time was a cheap (£140) LED 24" which wowed me as well especially for the price, better pic that my granddads 32" LED which was nearly 4 times the price
A few things have generally wow'd me over the last few years but heres a few and my reasons for them:
- watercooling my entire current build. The noise levels are superb and the temperatures are even better. Was fun to do and a good learning experience also. Can safely say I don't think I'd ever go back to a loud PC now.
- crucial M4 64gb SSD. Loads everything stupidly fast and makes programs that I wouldn't normally think about loading quickly like office based ones load pretty much instantly.
- 27inch iMac. For doing work on, these are something else entirely. The quality of the screen is amazing and having the ability to put most of 6 A4 pages on it at once in one of the many good word processing programs on it is a god send. Mix that with "scrivener" and you can have some serious word processing power behind you for projects and photo editing galore.
- Nvidia vision kit 2 3D. The effect of this coupled with the monitor I bought (benq XT2420T 120hz) was vastly more profound than I was expecting. Really makes some games look great and makes them far more engrossing. Skyrim and BF3 in 3D are awesome.
- watercooling my entire current build. The noise levels are superb and the temperatures are even better. Was fun to do and a good learning experience also. Can safely say I don't think I'd ever go back to a loud PC now.
- crucial M4 64gb SSD. Loads everything stupidly fast and makes programs that I wouldn't normally think about loading quickly like office based ones load pretty much instantly.
- 27inch iMac. For doing work on, these are something else entirely. The quality of the screen is amazing and having the ability to put most of 6 A4 pages on it at once in one of the many good word processing programs on it is a god send. Mix that with "scrivener" and you can have some serious word processing power behind you for projects and photo editing galore.
- Nvidia vision kit 2 3D. The effect of this coupled with the monitor I bought (benq XT2420T 120hz) was vastly more profound than I was expecting. Really makes some games look great and makes them far more engrossing. Skyrim and BF3 in 3D are awesome.
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Am I really the first person whose last "WOW" moment was switching on Eyefinity for the first time? I'd read about it, looked at some reviews, but honestly nothing prepared me for the grinI had when I first had my entire vision taken up by the game. Don't think I've stopped being impressed by it in a year!
Before that, the last "WOW"s were my first SSD, the 4870 (coming from 3870), and definitely Crysis. I remember being mesmerised just watching the seabed through the water surface and the sunlight filtering through the trees. Jaw dropping.
Before that, the last "WOW"s were my first SSD, the 4870 (coming from 3870), and definitely Crysis. I remember being mesmerised just watching the seabed through the water surface and the sunlight filtering through the trees. Jaw dropping.