What juicy hardware is to be expected for Santa Clause?

Buchanan0204 · 8 Oct 2011 at 17:39

I'm looking to upgrade my 4.5 year old desktop come Xmas time and just wondered what new hardware will be available around that time. IvyBridge wont be until Q1 2012... perhaps this is worth waiting for?

BD should be out by then? What's with the delay on this, surely it's not going to be worth it?

Nvidia got anything in the pipelines?

Any new SSD's due out? Cases?

Cheers!

panyan · 8 Oct 2011 at 17:44

i wanna see what the new GPU's bring to the table, not to mention some more 22nm processor news

Buchanan0204 · 8 Oct 2011 at 17:47

panyan said:
i wanna see what the new GPU's bring to the table, not to mention some more 22nm processor news

Geekily looking forward to it myself!

lewis2701 · 8 Oct 2011 at 18:23

what months ivy bridge meant to be released?

Buchanan0204 · 8 Oct 2011 at 18:29

lewis2701 said:
what months ivy bridge meant to be released?

Q2 2012

Tibbz2 · 8 Oct 2011 at 18:46

Aren't the HD7--- series out in November?

alex24 · 8 Oct 2011 at 18:48

The only thing I'm excited about is the new wave of android tablets and phones. In the PC world, not a lot. Who needs more performance on their PCs now though, not much difference in games nowadays anyway, everything runs very nicely on my HD5870 still! Maybe I'm too easily satisfied.

airrunner · 8 Oct 2011 at 18:57

alex24 said:
The only thing I'm excited about is the new wave of android tablets and phones. In the PC world, not a lot. Who needs more performance on their PCs now though, not much difference in games nowadays anyway, everything runs very nicely on my HD5870 still! Maybe I'm too easily satisfied.

I feel exactly the same as you, there just isn't enough games coming out to push the limits on pc. I still got a ati 4890 which still kicks the arse out of every game i throw at it. Seems pointless going for the best at present.

413x · 8 Oct 2011 at 19:16

My cpu isn't a problem at all. Apart from the new gfx I think I'm done, got a touchpad, probably a new phone before then, not interested in ssd (wouldn't benifit me)

Only purchase I intend for xmas is a gt30 plasma tv

Buchanan0204 · 8 Oct 2011 at 19:43

Some true comments... Any new tablets ready to hit the market to contend with Android and IOS. I can't stand Android, however I'm the opposite of an Apple fan, although I do love IOS. I wish something else would come out to contend with it.

Fledge · 8 Oct 2011 at 22:35

Am I right in assuming that the release of the HD7XXX series should make way for a price drop on the current generation cards?

Surveyor · 8 Oct 2011 at 22:52

Fledge said:
Am I right in assuming that the release of the HD7XXX series should make way for a price drop on the current generation cards?

You'll have to wait and see.

If the HD 7xxx series cards are priced higher, or there aren't huge stocks of the HD 6xxx series cards left, then prices may not change that dramatically.

shootersam · 8 Oct 2011 at 23:02

Fledge said:
Am I right in assuming that the release of the HD7XXX series should make way for a price drop on the current generation cards?

Hopefully

andy_mk3 · 8 Oct 2011 at 23:47

I don't see the hype about tablets myself! I'm hoping for SSDs to fall in price and get bigger/faster!