O HI THAR!!
ive been "out of the loop" or whatever in computer stuff for the past year maybe a little longer. so.. what has happened? any new stuff that has come out that is REALLY amazing and maybe worth buying?
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Interesting stuff in the last year:
AMD CPUs have plunged in price to their current, comically low levels. You can get a 955 black edition for just over $100
AMD has released a couple of APU platforms. Basically, they are like clarkdale, but they actually get the job done. For just over $100 you can get a board with cpu/gpu (APU), audio, lan, wireless. It'll do everything you'd ever need an HTPC or general use PC to do. It even runs some older games (ie, call of duty 2) at truly respectable framerates on respectable settings.
AMD and Nvidia have new (to you, if you're out of loop) graphic cards lines in the 500 and 6000 ranges, including dual GPU cards with ridiculous amounts of power (590, 6990)
AMD (will) release Bulldozer soon, which is their first major core re-work since Opteron, and is able to handle 128bits (sort of). Still uses their same old socket that they've been using since forever now.. The good old AM socket. Now AM3+.
Intel released Sandybridge (socket 1155, not 1156) under 'second generation core i3/5/7'. A reworked core and PCIE controller moved on-die as well as a locked baseclock differentiate them from the previous generations. Overclocking is done purely using the multiplier
Intel has released a few pictures here and there of their new platform and new socket which will use quad channel DDR3 (Socket 2011, X79 chipset).
SATA 6gbps and USB3 come on every motherboard now. The newest chipsets support Sata 6gbps natively while newer model boards of older chipsets, like new X58 boards, use a seperate controller.
You can now use a mouse in the bios on new motherboards.
