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Stability and maturity brought by Sandy Bridge

AMD’s CPU business was in the middle of a dark period after Phenom and FX failed. On the other hand, Intel introduced the second generation of Core series (Sandy Bridge), which is the core of the current Core series, and will dominate the CPU industry for several generations to come. NVIDIA has also made great strides in GPUs with Kepler and Maxwell, and GeForce has firmly established itself as the mainstream GPU. In addition, the price of SSDs continued to fall and became popular all at the same time, and it was during this time that the current standards were established.

PC home news 2011

・CPU with Turbo Boost, 2nd generation Core (Sandy Bridge) released

・Chipset for Sandy Bridge restored, confusion quickly resolved through replacement
・PCI Express 3.0 compatible motherboard released
・ Increase in motherboards accepting UEFI
・HDD capacity reaches 4TB
・Mini-ITX home feature on DOS/V POWER REPORT

It was around this time that the move towards power saving in PCs made it possible to build high performance PCs even with small PCs, increasing the level of freedom.

PC home news 2012

・Windows 8, which focuses on touch operation, has been released by Microsoft

Because we focused our efforts on the touch UI, it became a bit difficult to use on the desktop, and it was not well received by homebrew users.

・ 3rd generation Core (Ivy Bridge) with released 3D transistors
・Microsoft releases DirectX 11.1
・NVIDIA GeForce 600 series released with improved power efficiency

Since the GeForce 600 series focused on performance per watt, even the high-end GTX 670 could be sufficiently cooled with a small cooler like the one in the picture.

・The mainstream of NAND with SSD is changing from SLC to MLC

PC home news in 2013

・Microsoft releases Windows 8.1, an improved version of Windows 8.
・Intel releases 4th generation Core (Haswell) with better power efficiency
・ 3DMark will be released from Futuremark

hardware

・ GeForce 700 series released by NVIDIA
・ Radeon HD 8000 series and Radeon R9 / R7 200 series released from AMD
・ First look at GeForce GTX Titan from NVIDIA

NVIDIA’s flagship GPU, Titan, will be released. Its price, performance, and size were top notch at the time.

・Liquid metal grease Collaborator LIQUID PRO + CS released

Although the grease uses liquid metal and carries the risk of short circuits, it became popular due to its outstanding performance.

PC home news 2014

・Motherboard with M.2 slot will be released

With the installation of the M.2 slot, SSDs have begun to move from 2.5-inch bays to being mounted directly on the motherboard.

hardware

・AMD releases A10/A8/6 (Kaveri) with improved built-in GPU range

・ ASUSTeK MAXIMUS VI IMPACT, Mini-ITX motherboard for OC, released
・ NVIDIA releases GeForce GTX 900/750 series

STRIX-GTX970-DC2OV-4GD5 at ASUSTeK. Since Maxwell’s generation, heat generation during idle has become very low, making it possible to operate half-fans.

・ PCI Express 2.0 x4 compatible SSD, Samsung XP941 released

・Lian Li PC-Q33, Mini-ITX case masterpiece, released

PC home news 2015

・Windows 10 released by Microsoft with free upgrade available

The old UI like the start menu has been restored. We’ve made improvements such as being able to upgrade from older Windows for free.

・ 6th generation Core (Skylake) with extended platform released

In the Skylake generation, not only the performance of the CPU but also the entire platform was raised, meaning that the overall performance was better.

・SSD speed increases rapidly with NVMe support

・ A USB 3.1 compatible motherboard has appeared and is also equipped with a Type-C connector

Around this time, more and more motherboards were equipped with USB 3.1 (10Gbps) terminals, and external interfaces became even faster.

・DirectX 12 released

Full article from DOS/V POWER REPORT “2024 Winter Issue”

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