New Gaming Rig Advice

Seeing we're getting deep into geek talk, something I read yesterday: the Z80 processor that powered my ZX81 and the [SPIT]ZX Spectrum[/SPIT] is still being manufactured and used today - is that right?

 

I would suggest likely but only in a much updated form. Whilst the water sizes have increased 4 fold the size of the transistors on the silicon has somewhat shrunk and the machines used to manufature will have changed. Interesting subject as we're just about getting to the limits of the size now. A transistor on a modern chip can be as small as 100 odd silicon atoms.

The architecture itself will be usefull for a lot of low level stuff and everything has a microprocessor these days.

 

Fingers crossed not! It seems to have decent reviews as far as SSD's go, and if not I'll always keep everything backed up and it's under a long warranty.

 

I like the Wii and giving my grandkids a damn good hiding at Wii boxing.

 

The Wii is ace.

You must get this game:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Sports_Showdown

Very dated with Celebs on it like Nelly Furtado and Avril Lavine. But one sport on it has endured with my social circle more than any other game on any platform. Curling. It has the skill of Wii bowling with the addition of strategy of stone placement. Best played in pairs one chucks the stone controlling pace and direction then adds the spin with a twist of the controller. Then the partner takes over furiously sweeping as required. Watching my mates walk up to the telly to survey the rink, discuss where and how to chuck the next stone, before retiring back to actually play it is hilarious with a few sherbets.


You may want to mute this video

 

That looks absolutely brilliant for a laugh.

I just messaged my Son and he's currently on Ebay searching for it.

Funnily enough he took me for 40€ during the week playing Wii tennis and baseball. Sly ******* always knows to challenge me once I've had a few San Miguel's.

 

Can you cancel? its £1849 here
https://www.currys.co.uk/products/p...rx-6800-xt-2-tb-hdd-and-512-ssd-10219026.html

 

Still a bit steep maybe? Dunno prices seem to have gone mental.
I always used to budget for £1200 on a pc without monitor and that used to get not top of the range but next one down.

 

Aslo don't forget to check there's nothing lose inside before turning it on.

 

I think you might regret going too slim on that SSD. Windows 10 (and 11) end up chewing up so much space that you get very limited in terms of what you can store on that drive. Lowest I'd go on a SSD nowadays is 1TB, but I also tend to play some games with monster download sizes so you could make the argument that I'm an edge case.

I'm going to be upgrading soon myself, but I'm trying to limp through to Lovelace, which might be out around September. I have to run my 970 on debug mode to override the factory clock now, or it crashes!

 

All IT gear, especially video cards, is shockingly expensive right now due to a global chip shortage. I have had a large enterprise wifi order pending for a year and it's still not filled. Our laptops/desktops are 6 months+ out.

Prices have skyrocketed as a result, although they're starting to come down now at least. Scalpers have been getting screwed, which you love to see.

 

I think calling them liars is a bit strong. They simply overreached/overestimated, that's all.

Every single IT person I know (that's a lot of people, given what I do for a living) laughed at the notion that Windows 10 would be the last ever iteration of the OS. No one was shocked when 11 was announced.

I'm sure Microsoft intended to move to a long term update-forever service model, but the reality was always going to be that they'd end up painting themselves into a corner they couldn't escape without releasing a new OS, and so it proved. Sometimes you've just got to rearchitect from the ground up without being held back by technical debt.