How was IDE a hardware trend?
Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared
Submitted 2 months ago by yokonzo@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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spechter@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s an XDA article, what did you expect.
None of these are trends. They’re all hardware standards, and all but one of them are still very much here anyway
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Molex connectors were almost universally hated for being flimsy and requiring a lot of effort to connect properly. They were fortunately replaced by SATA connectors.
I can understand the “lot of effort”, but flimsy? Those things were built like a tank. SATA connectors certainly aren’t more-durable (not that that normally matters, inside a case).
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
Yes they were flimsy. When pushing them together the crimped ends would get pushed out the back of the plastic connector casing. Or they wouldn’t assign properly and would require either major force or fiddly realignment.
extremeboredom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember instances where the force required to disconnect the connector caused me to slip and rip a wire out.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have seen so many flimsy molex connectors
dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 months ago
They also came from a time when hard drives could draw several amps and more on spin-up. SATA connectors would simply melt.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I used them for SLI even!!
BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 months ago
RGB. Please. Finding hardware that doesn’t light up like a Christmas tree is harder than it should be. Even a simple power LED can light up an entire room.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I don’t really mind RGB, but my complaint is why every single LED has to be vivid electric blue. I want old red LEDs back, they were nice, they didn’t scorch my retinas.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Agreed.
For a quick fix, you can make blue power LEDs slightly more tolerable by sticking a piece of yellow post-it note on top of them, it turns them white.
chevy9294@monero.town 2 months ago
I have RGB keyboard and mouse because they were cheap. I only use red leds and it feels great. Modern but not annoying.
flodabo@programming.dev 2 months ago
Not anytime soon. Way too cheap to include(like cents for a mouse or ram and a few dollars for a keyboard) , and way too popular not to include. Well at least you can disable it.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
right, you fan disabile them using their unique software which you have to install for every component, signing away your life (cough cough Disney) in the process
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, all of my case fans have a switch on them, when I had it in a bedroom I opened the case and clicked them all off, no big deal, all the parts have been swapped, newest part now has to be 10 years old : /
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I remember my first serious build, blue acrylic case with as much black light reactive components I could get
Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My case is an old Tower Server Case tucked away behind my monitors. Loads of space and no need for cable management.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That bastard would slice you open and gut you like a pig at the first opportunity though.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I remember the first full build I did. All of my fans had LEDs, the case had LEDs. The first time I tried to play on it in the dark basement the SU was blinding. I disconnected all of the case LEDs, and replaced my fans for plain black ones.
__init__@programming.dev 2 months ago
Oh man I went through this phase too. I had the clear acrylic case and a bunch of those UV CCFL tubes.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The thing that I wish would go away is oversized graphics cards that take up 3 or more slots. There needs to be more options for liquid cooling that doesn’t require modifying the card.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think I’m misunderstanding your comment. Once you liquid cool the card, it’s no longer an oversized behemoth. My reference 4080S is only taking up a single slot.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Most graphics cards have massive air coolers that block other PCIe slots. I want more water cooled options since they are low profile. I just don’t want to have to void the warranty on a brand new card to install a water block.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The PCP is still big in those cases.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I am thinking that maybe more liquid cooling will happen with the whole AI thing on the datacenter side. That has a lot of parallel compute cards generating a lot of heat. Easier to move it with liquid than air.
Some other liquid-cooling annoyances:
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Cases don’t really have a standard-size mounting spot for the radiators.
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I want to use one radiator for all of the things that require cooling. Like, I’d rather have an AIO device that provides multiple cold plates.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I really doubt liquid is easier for a data center. They have airflow solved pretty well and noise doesn’t really matter. Liquid failing could potentially do way more damage, and might require shutting down whole areas for repair/damage prevention in the case of a single leak.
If they did do liquid at scale, it wouldn’t be done in a way it would work down to consumers. It would be like custom boards with full liquid blocks that tied into whole room water chillers or something.
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catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That would require cooler mount standards. I don’t think AMD or Nvidia currently have a standard.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The worst is still around: that GPU’s require more and more power. I wished more focus on efficiency. Not long until water cooling is mandatory, to get all the heat away.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
They are. GTX 580 from 2011 has a TDP of 375W. RTX 4080 has 320W, while offering over ten times better performance. 4060 outperforms the 1060, 2060 and 3060 while having a lower TDP than any of them.
It’s the very top of the line stuff like 4090 that push the limit by achieving that very last 10% performance bump at the cost of using double the power.
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The lack of PsyX cards is upsetting.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unfortunately those cards come and went so fast that the LLM that wrote this “article” didn’t have enough data on this
outrageousmatter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The early 2000s era, oh boy let me start with the capacitor plague era, oh boy tech around that era seems to break down a lot and I wonder if it has to do with the plague of capacitor failing or leaking causing stuff to break.
Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Intel’s slot CPU interface. Sure it cleaned up motherboard layouts but the need for more comprehensive cooling solutions that would soon follow made this a bad direction to go in.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sound cards
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Curved monitors.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Uhh, plenty of people still use them, and for 32:9 displays you absolutely need it curved or it’s basically unusable. I don’t think they’re going away any time soon, because they’re not a “trend”.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I like them better than flat in ultrawide.They have their justification too.
lnxtx@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Did bottom PSU ATX cases disappeared? Floor dust suckers.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Nope lol
corroded@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is kind of a shit article. Most of these are just old hardware that eventually had modern improvements, not “trends.”
A “trend” is cold cathode black lights inside the case, not a silly naming scheme for CPU revisions.
AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Ya acrylic side cases where a trend, maybe 3D monitors but everything else in there was just specific technology that has been replaced by better technology…
yokonzo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IDK I would say 3d monitors are a trend that died pretty hard
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A trend implies a level of popularity. There was none.
It’s ultimately just failed (or “pre-successful”) technology that wasn’t able to do the job well enough at a sufficient price to develop a market.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Meanwhile, in Korea…
tftcentral.co.uk/…/samsung-showcase-glasses-free-…
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I love my 3 monitor setup 🥲