Microsoft Surface Studio PC

[Peter Korsten]

Op 27-10-2016 om 09:43 schreef Jay Vaughan (ibisum):

> I'll be building a next-generation PC for myself soon as well... Not 
> sure which direction to go, but one thing is for sure it is going to 
> have to be beefy as fuck.

That's an idea that I've been toying with for some months now. My PC 
-well, at least the motherboard, CPU and memory- is six years old now. 
In fact, the motherboard is not fast enough for the SSD (a 1 TB Samsung 
Pro). If I change those, I can keep the case (a nice Fractal Design 
one), the PSU (something like a kilowatt, serious overkill), the SSD, 
the HDD, the BD player/DVD writer (which I *never* use), the sound card 
(ditto), and all the peripherals.

And yet, the Core i7 closest to the $300 mark is merely twice as fast as 
the i7-960 that powers it now. It seems hardly worth making such an 
investment. Perhaps I could add more memory (currently, it has 6 GB), 
but it usually uses about half, so that seems useless as well.

Then, I could replace the GTX 580 with a GTX 1080, which costs around 
$600 and offers a factor 2.5 speed increase. VR? Cool, but considering 
the state of my retinas, probably not very useful either. And I kinda 
stopped playing video games, except Portal 2 with my son (which the GTX 
580 has no problems with) or some leisurely games on Facebook. Heck, GTA 
V, which I waited for patiently for years, I simply stopped playing.

So, for the first time in many, many years, I don't see the point of 
spending north of €1000 on stuff that'll make my PC twice as fast. The 
way I use it has changed, and the tablet has taken over a lot of its 
tasks (although nothing can beat a keyboard, mouse and 22" screen, 
except perhaps a bigger screen).

- Peter