[citation][nom]ImagineTek[/nom]It is right, although my mind does become befuddled when I think what practical uses a 12.8GB/sec transfer on a phone might be. Any suggestions?[/citation]
I don't about you, but I sure as hell don't mind EXTRA speed. Would you mind gaming with a 6-core i7 980x at 4.5GHz? No game is going to take full advantage of that chip, but you certainly wouldn't complain about it.
That being said, I agree with saturnus that the mobile industry is really stepping its game up. Hopefully we can merge some of its technologies over here on the desktop side. Not that I don't love the idea of having a beastly tower under my desktop. I would just enjoy a little downsizing.
I feel like with the technology we have in phones there is NO reason our powerhouse desktops should be so HUGE and consume so much power. These tiny little handheld smartphones have insanely low power consumption for their performance. Not to mention both power consumption/performance is improving at an astonishing rate. Yet we still have people packing 1000W PSU's in the FULL SIZE towers, granted its for tri-sli for the most powerful GPU's on the planet, but it still blows my mind how these fastly improving smartphones consume a fraction of the power, are completely FANLESS, all in a tiny form factor.
I'd say it's about time we start downsize our desktops. SSD's are a great step towards this, extremely high performance(and price
), yet low power and barely generate any heat when compared to mechanical hard drives. CPU's are taking a step in the right direction as well, although notebook CPU's are way ahead in terms of power consumption/heat. Now all we need is lower the power consumption/heat on these high performance GPU's, which quite frankly is ridiculous. We have mobile gaming notebooks capable of maxing out almost any game(at 1080p) that barely use more than 150W on full load. There is absolutely NO REASON we should NEED more than 500W for a desktop gaming system. (Maybe for QUAD SLI to play 2560x1600)
Am I crazy to think this? I don't know, it just seems like gaming PC's have been stagnant in the last 5-10 years in terms of size/power consumption/heat. Hardware has definitely been improving, but with such great improvements in efficiency these large towers should be a thing of the past.