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Activity at several PC tech sites have dropped considerabley

It may not be a threat to higher end pc's but it won't be long before it makes some pretty big in-roads on the pc market, at least that's my prediction. In 10 years (or less) we will probably look back at the Atrix as the beginning of it all. Sure it failed, but it's the idea that counts. There are phones that can "plug in" to a tablet as well which is a great idea. I'd love to have one of those as well as a dock like the Atrix setup. Sure I'd still have a higher end pc as it's necessary for me but it would be great to have a core (the phone) that I can just put into a tablet size screen for messing around and then be able to remove the phone and plug it into a desktop type system for other type of work. All the data would obviously be the same no matter where it's connected. No syncing needed and you only have 1 device to backup. That is the future.
 
I'd hazard a guess that a large part of the decline can be tied to the fact that many PC hardware/functions which used to be considered strictly enthusiast territory have been brought into the mainstream by manufacturers, and thus folks don't need to turn to enthusiast websites for information.

Take overclocking as an example.... back in the old days getting a decent OC took a fair bit of research and knowledge which could only be found on the enthusiast websites. These days it's as simple as buying a processor which is mainstream marketed as having an unlocked multiplier specifically for overclocking.... no knowledge required, get an idea of what folks are getting out of their chips and raise the multiplier to that point. You don't even need to concern yourself with what the memory is doing if you don't want to, it won't be afffected by raising the multi.

Water Cooling is another example.... AIO coolers have come a long way in the last few years thus watercooling these days is almost as much about asthetics as it is about performance. Add to that the fact that even custom WC gear is now easily purchased online and we're back to the suggestion that "expert" opinions on gear (and where to get it) aren't as relevant as they would have been even just 5 years ago.
 
I'm still browsing these forums, even if I am posting from my phone while on public transit. Mobile tech is my enabler.
 
Give us something to talk about. The latest gen of vid cards is getting long in the tooth. And they weren't much better than the last gen, other than power and heat. Intel's last enthusiast cpu was too expensive to be worth the price and showed little benefit to gaming. And why upgrade when todays midrange card can get you playable framerates on max settings at 1080p in almost every game.

I haven't been excited about pc hardware since the i7920/gtx4xx, 3 years ago.
 
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Give us something to talk about. The latest gen of vid cards is getting long in the tooth. And they weren't much better than the last gen, other than power and heat. Intel's last enthusiast cpu was too expensive to be worth the price and showed little benefit to gaming. And why upgrade when todays midrange card can get you playable framerates on max settings at 1080p in almost every game.

I haven't been excited about pc hardware since the i7920/gtx4xx, 3 years ago.
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Those are my thoughts as well. All upgrades since then have been incremental without any real incentive to upgrade unless a person was buying a whole new system.

For me, I think that's one of the reasons why I was so disapointed with Bulldozer. I was hoping for something inovative and exciting as opposed to something which was outperformed by their previous tech, and the latest procs are (similar to intel's strategy) more of an incremental improvement than a fresh start. The only real game changer recently has been SSD tech, and that doesn't really require that much in the way of research / knowledge... just plug it in, clone your mechanical hdd to it, and away you go.
 
Nothing jumps out anymore... all concern is focused on power savings and running cooler... no more 92C gtx 480 load temps and over 2X the past generations power.
 
We are nearing the limits of silicon wafers. Time for the next big thing in microconductors.

Where is all the next gen tech, we see hints of it in Science journals but they are still pumping old tech at us.
 
The PC game graphic advances have been slowing down, not keeping pace with requiring the cutting edge of new hardware to run properly. Remember when Crysis came out? Only the most expensive machines with sli/crossfire could run it smoothly. Now most of the new games don't even look much better then crysis, and will run on midlevel hardware, 100$ cpus and 250$ graphic cards. I think the slow down is a combination of 2 things. Hardware advances have slowed (i7 920, 3 years old, and still viable high and gaming cpu) and the steady increase of horsepower required to run a game has flatlined, due to more devs catering to the console market.
I think nvidia/amd/intel should subsidize a few games in development, if the game devs then put that money straight into making the graphics super cutting edge. Once the game came out, people would upgrade to play it.
 
Mark its easy for money is one other is shill sites

yes smart phones, hand held gaming have put some dent in PC gaming and piracy of PC games have killed the PC market

software makers have made console priorty
 
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