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Fiber On Your Motherboard...Soon!

Posted by timothy on from the let-there-be-fiber dept.

km790816 writes: "In this post I joked about wanting an optical bus on my PC. In the last week I've seen two articles from The Register and EETimes discussing the real possibility. Both mention high bandwidth and lower heat and power usage. Sounds good to me."

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  1. Not a troll by DahGhostfacedFiddlah · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Christ - I get here and there are 15 trolls to the 0 useful comments.

    Anyway - not knowing much about hardware - how much of a bottleneck is the bus right now? In terms of power usage is it a hog? In terms of heat does it create that much more than the rest of the hardware?

    Of course, I'm not complaining about tech advances, I'm just wondering if this is "Woohoo! Problem solved!", or just "keeping ahead of the game".

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  2. Re:speed up HD's by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Yes, I did read the entire post.

    No, quit using HDs altogether.

    You can get a motherboard with 4G of ram
    these days. What do you need a hard drive
    for?
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