When are motherboards going to catchup?

[blubomber]

I remeber reading sometime ago that the chipset makers were trying to settle on a replacement for the current motherboard design standard. What is the status on this? With chipset makers double and even quad pumping the FSB on motherboards, it seems they are trying to extend the life of the technology but in the end, isn't it time for a redesign??

I am sure that that is easier said than done, but with the 64bit AMD chips out, arent the motherboards quickly becoming the bottleneck? Hasnt the current design been around since the 80s?

What happened to DDR2?

Just curious.

[jkrohn]

DDR2 is on its way. News article here
http://www.techimo.com/newsapp/index.pl?photo=7913

Jkrohn

[John Prophet]

I would think hard drives are still a pretty good bottleneck also.

JP

[agathodaimon]

Kinda wondered that about Motherboards myself...
But like JP said, I also think that Hard drives are a BIG bottleneck... Spinning up, spinning down, grind, grind, grind.

Wait till they get the solid state stuff working and cheap. It'll be almost as fast as RAM then.

"Hey guys, check out my new DDR2 hard drive! [pushes power button on PC, Windows login screen pops up] Sweet, huh?!"

[agathodaimon]

hehe...

Booting up will become a thing of the past.... I can tell my children about how it took over a MINUTE to load up Windows 2000.

[blubomber]

Yeah, Hard drives too, but SATA has some good potential though and is a step in the right direction, i think.


agathodaimon....GO CU!!!!!!!!!!

[agathodaimon]

Originally posted by blubomber
agathodaimon....GO CU!!!!!!!!!!

BAH! Friday, November 28: Nebraska vs. Colorado - at Boulder, Colorado
We'll see...

[blubomber]

Yes, i am looking foreward to that game.

SATA has a lot of potential. But we won't see true speed until the hard drive can communicate at the same speed as the RAM and CPU can. Then we'll be back to the video card being the bottleneck.