Computers are ever evolving pieces of machinary with new products that go inside it everyday. For example, DDR3 RAM just came out and new LED technology is helping make laptops more efficient. Well now 3 more standards are going to enter out computers. Larger hard drives, faster internet, and larger system bus.
Many people, including me, don't know that the system bus limits overall performance as your PC's data flow goes through the system bus and if
its not big enough, you get a bottleneck, much like when the 404 turns into the DVP. Currently the standard is PCI 2.3 which offers a data transfer rate of 5.2 gigabits per second which is a lot at first glance but the next generation is called PCI 3.0. This hardware will have a data transfer rate of 8 gigabits per second. Not only will PCI 3.0 allow for higher GPU performance (A special processor dedicated to calculating the graphics in a game. A GPU allows for better looking console games and takes the load off of the CPU during gameplay), but it also allows the system bus to power graphic cards directly instead of going through a seperate power line. The downfall is, you'll need a 3.3V card to use it instead of a 5V or 3.3V. Don't worry though, as these graphic cards (PCI 3.0) will be out in 2010 with the specs debuting in 2009.
its not big enough, you get a bottleneck, much like when the 404 turns into the DVP. Currently the standard is PCI 2.3 which offers a data transfer rate of 5.2 gigabits per second which is a lot at first glance but the next generation is called PCI 3.0. This hardware will have a data transfer rate of 8 gigabits per second. Not only will PCI 3.0 allow for higher GPU performance (A special processor dedicated to calculating the graphics in a game. A GPU allows for better looking console games and takes the load off of the CPU during gameplay), but it also allows the system bus to power graphic cards directly instead of going through a seperate power line. The downfall is, you'll need a 3.3V card to use it instead of a 5V or 3.3V. Don't worry though, as these graphic cards (PCI 3.0) will be out in 2010 with the specs debuting in 2009.
When George S. was working for Much Music, back about 6 or 7 years ago, he had to specially order a 1TB hard drive to hold all his music. Back then, that was rarity, but now companies are going to be offering 5TB hard drives.To get something this big without sacrificing space a technique called Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) and a similar technology called Thermally Assited Magnetic Recording (TAMR) uses lasers to heat the surface of the hard drive which makes it possible to pack a Terabyte into a square inch of the drives surface. This doubles the standard as a 2 inch square space could only fit 1 Terabyte. Once the laser starts heating the surface up, the driver can manipulate the surface on an extremely fine scale of about tens of nanometres. A huge benefit of these drives is the way the information is organized on it. The data will be organized into self-arranging magnetic arrays that allow the creation of a single bit of data on every grain of the drives surface. Don't expect this drive to be installed onto your computer for the next holiday season though. Its still a research project but Seagate expects to sell a 5TB HAMR hard drive by 2011Bored of your internet connection? IPv4 is getting to be recurrent and so an old technology is expected to take over around the beginning of 2011. 2011 is the date when all the IP addresses in the current format will run out. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses whereas IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses which is a vast improvement. IPv6 also has network-layer encryption and authentication to make much more secure communications between computers. Give credit to the US government for making IPv6 more mainstream as they have ordered all there computers to be outfitted with the technology in 2008.