Most of us are here because we love SFF and the cases that are the backbone of this mindset. But what do you look forward to most besides the cases ?
Many people drool over new processors and graphics cards, I usually get emotional about new chipsets and storage solutions, most likely because I prefer revolution over evolution any time of the day. I’m more anxious about Kaby Lake’s chipset than the processors they’ll house. AMD’s Zen platform is interesting to me because of more than a few reasons, hoping it will be a competitive processor once more. But I am more curious about what kind of interfaces and connections it will support.
This is also true for storage, I was very excited for SSDs to touch the consumer market and if possible, I would have put up a camping spot in front of the store when NVMe PCIe SSDs were released. I had the first motherboard that had a SATA connector, singular. I was very happy to get the first generation of 3.5” WD Raptor drives and later on the 2.5” Velociraptor drives. When the first mITX board with PCIe M.2 support was announced, I was very enthusiastic, although it ended up not being a good implementation.
So what tickles your fancy ?
Some of my past note-worthy hardware:
Asus A7V8X-Deluxe motherboard (all sorts of new tech): https://web.archive.org/web/20110901164313/http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_Socket_A/A7V8X/
Asus P5E-VM HDMI motherboard (first custom SFF build): https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5EVM_HDMI/
WD Raptor 36GB SATA150 HDD (first 10k rpm consumer HDD): http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2879-001069.pdf
Quantum Bigfoot 2,5GB ATA HDD (5,25" 3600rpm HDD, cheap): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot
Many people drool over new processors and graphics cards, I usually get emotional about new chipsets and storage solutions, most likely because I prefer revolution over evolution any time of the day. I’m more anxious about Kaby Lake’s chipset than the processors they’ll house. AMD’s Zen platform is interesting to me because of more than a few reasons, hoping it will be a competitive processor once more. But I am more curious about what kind of interfaces and connections it will support.
This is also true for storage, I was very excited for SSDs to touch the consumer market and if possible, I would have put up a camping spot in front of the store when NVMe PCIe SSDs were released. I had the first motherboard that had a SATA connector, singular. I was very happy to get the first generation of 3.5” WD Raptor drives and later on the 2.5” Velociraptor drives. When the first mITX board with PCIe M.2 support was announced, I was very enthusiastic, although it ended up not being a good implementation.
So what tickles your fancy ?
Some of my past note-worthy hardware:
Asus A7V8X-Deluxe motherboard (all sorts of new tech): https://web.archive.org/web/20110901164313/http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_Socket_A/A7V8X/
Asus P5E-VM HDMI motherboard (first custom SFF build): https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5EVM_HDMI/
WD Raptor 36GB SATA150 HDD (first 10k rpm consumer HDD): http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2879-001069.pdf
Quantum Bigfoot 2,5GB ATA HDD (5,25" 3600rpm HDD, cheap): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot