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Recently I replaced my old video card on my PC, the old one had something like 160 core while new one has 960. I plugged it in and nothing really noticeable ha

Recently I replaced my old video card on my PC, the old one had something like 160 core while new one has 960. I plugged it in and nothing really noticeable has improved. Same with when I swapped my HDD's out for SSD's. In contrast when I was a kid, there was a night & day difference going from an old Apple ][e to a 286 chipset. But I also believe that Apple's gouged out a large chunk of customers via ipads and osx based computers. There's also the question of what is wrong with Windows 7 for anyone to leave it? I can't find supporting numbers right now, but how many years did it take for XP's user base to abandon it? Additionally Valve is starting to prop up linux's weakest sales point and make the consumer friendly distro's gamer friendly. I guess my overall point is that a lot of little bites and not one main culprit is responsible for eroding Microsoft's market share.

randallsquared 14y ago
"Same with when I swapped my HDD's out for SSD's." That's... pretty astonishing.
- robryan 14y ago
  Yeah, honestly the difference between HDD and SSD was bigger for non games uses than my computer upgrades in the 90's.
  - CptCodeMonkey 14y ago
    A decade earlier I was into DIY car performance. I had a Nissan 180sx that was at ~220WHP and slowly tuned/modified it until it was at 380-400WHP. The car could easily kill it's driver if they weren't careful because it was really damn fast. At that point, there were no more easy modifications and gains were in the variable/dubious 10-15WHP that would only be noticeable if I ran the car on a timed trial or a dyno. How this correlates to my HDD to SSD experience is that my workstation is already fairly optimized ( not overclocked mind you ), so biggest improvement was possibly in random seek and since I don't run MySQL or any other server system on the computer that does thousands of file op's/second the improvement was relatively marginal.
thedrbrian 14y ago
Have you actually tried anything other than the desktop? What software did you use to gauge the power of this new graphics card?

randallsquared 14y ago

"Same with when I swapped my HDD's out for SSD's." That's... pretty astonishing.

robryan 14y ago
Yeah, honestly the difference between HDD and SSD was bigger for non games uses than my computer upgrades in the 90's.
- CptCodeMonkey 14y ago
  A decade earlier I was into DIY car performance. I had a Nissan 180sx that was at ~220WHP and slowly tuned/modified it until it was at 380-400WHP. The car could easily kill it's driver if they weren't careful because it was really damn fast. At that point, there were no more easy modifications and gains were in the variable/dubious 10-15WHP that would only be noticeable if I ran the car on a timed trial or a dyno. How this correlates to my HDD to SSD experience is that my workstation is already fairly optimized ( not overclocked mind you ), so biggest improvement was possibly in random seek and since I don't run MySQL or any other server system on the computer that does thousands of file op's/second the improvement was relatively marginal.

thedrbrian 14y ago

Have you actually tried anything other than the desktop? What software did you use to gauge the power of this new graphics card?