Hello people, new kid on the block
I start this thread cause...well, after cheking some recent technologies, new products & the like, and wishing- daydreaming about the "future" and coming stuff a possible super duper custom rig, I came with some questions, ideas, crazy thoughts etc etc etc; so I decided to finally post'em on a forum to share'em and exchange ideas and info. Maybe I won't post'em all in the first post, but I will try to post all my wacky stuff.
With that being said, here we go....
Starting with the "heart - mind &soul" of a PC, nehalem is here with us, anice piece of sillicon and gulftown is coming soon and good MoBos, however there's been a "drought" on the X58 front, furthermore, theres plenty of stuff that I would like to get improved/implemented on their platforms. I will try to elaborate and be more explicit.
Good examples I'll try to "conect", ASUS, MSI, EVGA.
The "supercomputer" series of Mobos by ASUS & their good implementation of something "unusual"- the multiple PCI-E x 16 lanes.
MSI with their "genie" and the support and inclusion of the HYDRA chip.
EVGA now, with the XL-ATX platform, joining the fray with the innovations and fresh air for the computer world. But, here's my great point and question- What about someone(either one) combining all these nifty characteristics?
A MoBo- on XL-ATX form factor, a "genie" that manages to handle in real time the power load so as to not use everything at 100% when unneeded and pump "juice" when it is really needed, which also happens to include...say...a couple HYDRA chips to help with the badwith AND improvement of Crossfire/SLI. Wouldn't that be really neat? Wouldn't that be AWESOME to see and even have? You know it is; so, What is preventing such an outstanding piece of hardware from showing up? (and no please, no capitalistic, marketing, sales shares, financial stuff here, throw all that as far away as you can, and lets try to focus on the technical-manufacture side of what is preventing that) What is so big and complicated that would be preventing such a killer hardware??? Furthermore, SKULLTRAIL was announced-or more like hinted- the last summer, What's preventing it too? Heck, imagine all of these combined: genie, HYDRA, skulltrail 2 plenty of PCI-E lanes.
Some minutes ago I got a glimpse at a new EVGA MoBo. the 4 way SLi & not only that but saw the DUAL LGA - 1366, nifty, cool & quite possibly a step in the right direction (or at least the direction we are dealing with here) So, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, What about that? pounder that for a minute, ok?
Very well, after that minute, let me continue, and go a little bit beyond on this visionary
/insane proposition. Why also limit the amount of RAM to 24 GB??? All X58 platforms are pretty much "limited" by that; sure, there's not many kits out there that can reach that amount, with MANY rather than ANY the key word here, by saying so come immediately to my mind for example CRUCIAL, the folks at crucial memory have already 24 GB tri-kits, such as:<go find'em yourselves, the forum is telling me I can't post URLs, sorry guys>
Expensive? SURE, but there are for the taking, so exactly WHAT is preventing any of the aforementioned players ( + the ones not mentioned) from upping the bar from the 24 GB limit right up to 48, 50, 60 GBs ???
There's also some articles/news on here at techpowerup & some other places reporting "improvements" and "increased yields" on nand flash, So what about an increase in these mentioned densities in production and in reaching DIMMs of 10 GB ??? Can you imagine instead of "only" being able to stick 24 GB of RAM be able to stick 60 !!!! ????
And last but not least with all these PLUSES, what about polishing and standarazing the XL-ATX , with MoBos that instead of only having at most 7 slots, go way up to 8 or even 10?
No cases? No problem, they can be made, case builders just need the excuse to make'em, actually Thermaltake already have a case with up to 10 pci slots (armor or kandalf??? can't remember).
So what do you think guys? I know what Im posting is extreme, perhaps borderline madness, but certainly it is not impossible to achieve. What do you guys think?
Please share your ideas, opinions...dreams on the matter. Im really looking forward for people with great knowledge to post, give their input, so maybe we can all come with some neat platforms....and maybe the manufacturers will pay attention and decide to give the leap.
Thanks in advance.