PC upgrade, how long will i have to wait for.......

[Barley]

Intel are soon to be introducing the 3.2 processor, how long will it be before I can buy a 6.0 with 1000gig of ram a 256gb graphics card and a 400gb hard drive for a reasonable price i.e. £2000 or $2000 dollars - whatever...

Predictions please, my estimation is Quarter 1, 2005.

[ixnay]

1000gig of ram

Damn, that's a lot of memory.

[Barley]

Yea well i have a lot of (p)orn on my pc, no seriously, i meant meg sorry....

[Grrr]

6.0 GHz ... Q4 2004
1TB RAM ... 2010?
256GB GFX ... 2010?
400GB HDD ... Q3 2003

[Grrr]

Seeing your post ... Q4 2004.

1GB of RAM is around now ... that's what I'm getting in a month, 256MB GFX cards will be around later this year, as will 400GB HDD's. So the thing you'll be waiting on is the CPU.

[Urban Ranger]

400GB HDD's later this year? Unlikely.

1TB of RAM. If Moore's Law holds true, that will be 10 iternations of doubling, which is 180 months, or 15 years.

[Az]

on a related note, did you hear about the new nanometric sensors that were developed?

It can increase the capacity of hard drive surface by a 1000 IIRC.

[alva]

I expect HD to be bigger than that by the end of this year. 300GB HD's are already around for quite awhile.

[Rasbelin]

Yes, if you use Serial ATA, you can easily get a very large hard drive like Alva suggests.

[Urban Ranger]

The biggest HDD I found on Pricewatch is 250GB EIDE. There is no HDD that uses serial ATA that I know of.

[Rasbelin]

Ehhmm... Matrox's and Seagate's SATA HHDs are already available here. The largest is 320 Gb by Matrox.

[Urban Ranger]

The MaXLineII is the biggest one I saw on the Maxtor (not Matrox) website. Not Serial ATA.