computer for christmas???

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > computer for christmas???

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Sagebrush posted:

by far the biggest single component in my first computer was the hard drive. there was no graphics card and the cpu was a normal looking quad pack ic with no fan or heat sink.

now hard drives are the size of a stick of gum and the two most massive things in the case are the cooling systems for the cpu and gpu

the maths are far too difficult for a human to do but what got bigger hard drive sizes or tranny counts

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echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Sagebrush posted:

Well I had a 40MB hard drive and a 68030 processor vs today a 2TB NVMe drive and a ryzen 3900

273,000 transistors vs 9.9 billion
40 million bytes vs 2 trillion

So the hard drive got 50,000 times bigger while the processor got 35,000 times as many transistors. Close but the storage edges it out

idk if the future has been worth it

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