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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: HavocTM on May 04, 2004, 11:57:02 AM

Title: Forget AH2 Hardware Reqs
Post by: HavocTM on May 04, 2004, 11:57:02 AM

If you plan on running the new version of Windows when it comes out in a couple years, you should have NO problem running AH2...

Be prepared to spend a wad o' cash though.

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1581842,00.asp

Title: Forget AH2 Hardware Reqs
Post by: vorticon on May 04, 2004, 12:25:26 PM

crazy...no doubt they will optimize it so only microsoft products can run reasonably well under that OS...

Title: Forget AH2 Hardware Reqs
Post by: txmx on May 04, 2004, 08:40:13 PM

Yep sounds like Bill is making another system HOG:(

Title: Forget AH2 Hardware Reqs
Post by: Innominate on May 04, 2004, 10:37:50 PM

Consider that longhorn is several years away(2006-2007 maybe later?)then throw moores law in, and those specs aren't all that far off.

Though Ill bet that cpu makers will back off of "mhz as performance" and start making chips do more in a cycle.  So 4-6ghz is pretty meaningless except as a comparison to the performance of current chips.

I'm no fan of microsoft, but unless moore's law fails(it hasnt yet afaik) those specs are right on target with the current state of PCs.

Title: Forget AH2 Hardware Reqs
Post by: Ecliptik on May 05, 2004, 03:27:35 PM

Moore's law can't continue indefintely with CMOS technology.  Power consumption and heat generated by the CPU core are rising exponentially with linear performance increases.  At this rate, in 20 years your CPU core will be as hot as the sun and take a couple dozen kilowatts to run. So, they certainly can't keep clocking higher, and they can't keep making transistors smaller, because they're already at channel lengths shorter than the wavelengths of light, and they're going to start getting into nasty quantum effects.  There's only so much you can practically accomplish with parallel processing and pipelining in personal computers.  We'll have to see a paradigm shift in technology (perhaps optical computing) for Moore's law to keep on going in the upcoming decades.

Title: Forget AH2 Hardware Reqs
Post by: Sundowner on May 05, 2004, 05:14:51 PM

Quote:

We'll have to see a paradigm shift in technology (perhaps optical computing) for Moore's law to keep on going in the upcoming decades.


I think Longhorn will be released before these "upcoming decades".

Title: Forget AH2 Hardware Reqs
Post by: mora on May 06, 2004, 07:43:28 AM

Well I'm not ever going to install that hog to my system. Infact I'm considering re-installin 98 SE as the new independent service pack is supposed to solve it's memory handling problems.

Title: Forget AH2 Hardware Reqs
Post by: straffo on May 06, 2004, 07:54:04 AM

Any link Mora ?