Tech Trends: Desktop Computer Tech in 2013

In my next installment of the series on what type of tech you can expect to see in 2013, I would like to touch on the forefather of most of the devices that are currently available: the desktop PC. Desktop PCs have had a long and storied history over the last few decades and were instrumental in introducing us to many of the things we currently take for granted, such as surfing the internet and playing video games. Even with all of the newest advances in mobile technology, desktops are still extremely popular and usually the best way to go in terms of power and affordability.

In order to accurately assess the possibilities of what type of hardware advancements we might see in the coming year, the first thing needed is to break things down into the separate components that make up each desktop. While each tech device contains most of these components, the ability to customize and change parts by the end user makes looking at the individual parts the most applicable when referring to desktops. Following are some of the main parts that make up a desktop, where things stand now and where we can expect them to go in the coming year.

CPU

Given that the CPU is basically the brain of the desktop, it makes sense to start with it first. While each component is needed to actually make a desktop work, the CPU is the part that performs all of the computer?s computations and coordinates between each individual part. Tech companies have made huge strides over the last decade in bringing a level of power that has never before been seen in commercially available units.

Projections for the coming year are optimistic in terms of CPUs that will provide users with an even higher level of power over what is available today. Tech giant Intel is slated to release their Ivy Bridge-E units for users looking for extreme performance and the Haswell processors for the more mainstream portion of customers.

Storage

For those of us who have been technophiles since the beginning of the rise of personal computers, memories are sure to exist of hard drives containing storage capacities of under one gigabyte. In comparison, today?s computer users are spoiled with affordable storage devices existing that contain room for terabytes of information, which is one thousand times larger than one gigabyte.

Most current internal and external drives usually come in capacities of around 2TB. While larger sizes do exist, they can be prohibitively expensive for the average user. Western Digital, one of the leading manufacturers of storage devices today, has recently announced that they will be unveiling an internal, 3.5 inch drive made for desktops, which will contain a whopping five terabytes of storage space!

Graphics

One of the key components for any fan of computer games is the graphics adapter housed in their desktop. With the increasing level of sophistication that make up most current computer games and graphics programs, the need for faster and more powerful graphics adapters, also known as video cards, is ongoing.

Current video cards are designed to handle these resource-intensive programs using a combination of a dedicated graphics processing unit (GPU) as well as RAM that is dedicated solely to processing and storing the information that makes up each program. Most changes that we are likely to see will come in the form of more advanced GPUs and a higher level of RAM, both of which will allow PCs to process the higher level of information that newer programs will be made up of.

While there are, of course, other components inside each desktop PC, the ones listed above are those that usually see the most movement in the form of power and sophistication. With advancements in each one of these categories comes desktop models that will outshine previous models and provide even more power and speed than anything we have seen to date.

Source: http://www.techtous.com/blog/tech-trends-desktop-computer-tech-in-2013/

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