The Fastest Computer Setup On Earth
Paul Watson, PC Technician
Friday, May 8th 2009Is your computer lagging? Does it take 20 minutes to start-up your PC? Days to download a movie? Weeks to print a few colour photos? Want to know ways to speed up your computer?Well providing you have enough disposable income, or well-placed family members, the technology is available to make computer-related waiting times a thing of the past. Sure, the technology we’re going to show you will probably be outdated by the time you’ve saved up enough cash to get your hands on it, but it’s good to drool.
The World’s Fastest Desktop PC
At £3’940, the YOYOtech Fi7epower MLK1610v certainly doesn’t claim to be the cheapest PC in the world, however what it does claim to be is the world’s fastest PC after recently breaking the world record in the industry standard SPEC CPU2006 benchmark tests. The innards of this system are of such high quality that were you to purchase just the 9GB of DDR3 memory and Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition processor, it would set you back close to £2’000. If the hardware itself isn’t speedy enough for you, also included with the PC is an embedded operating system called ExpressGate. It boots up from cold in 5 seconds.
The World’s Fastest Desktop Printer
Within the next few months, home printing technology will be revolutionized. Memjet Technologies have for the past few years been developing print engine components which will enable full color A4 printing at a ridiculously speedy 60 pages per minute, a rate far greater than any desktop inkjet printers currently on the market. So what’s the secret behind this dazzling speed? Basically, the printerhead, rather than sliding across the page from left to right as with normal inkjet printers, Memjet’s is designed to span the width of the page itself, negating the need for any movement on its part and resulting in much faster ink deployment via approximately 70’000 nozzles.
The World’s Fastest Residential Internet Connection
Imagine being able to download a full length, High Definition movie in 2 seconds rather than 2 days. Now imagine that internet connection has been piped into the home of a 75 year old woman who has never used the world wide web before, let alone got to grips with the idea of downloading anything. That’s what happened last year in Sweden when IT whiz Peter Löthberg installed a 40Gbps connection in his mother Sigbritt’s home – the world’s fastest ever residential internet connection – in order to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has. Let’s just hope she had a computer sturdy enough to cope with those kind of download speeds.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:32 am
that printer is pretty wicked …. got to save up and get me one
May 9th, 2009 at 1:13 am
The price is very high for a computer. I can buy a car with that money. lol
May 9th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Yes, but with an internet connection like that… why not just download the car?
May 9th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Yes, or you can get the computer and download the car instead.
May 9th, 2009 at 3:35 am
and to answer your next question: yes, I am a noob.
May 9th, 2009 at 9:35 am
40Gbps for a home connection!
I am doomed!
May 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
0 to booted in 5 seconds, that’s amazing!
May 12th, 2009 at 2:34 am
@Television Spy: It boots a stripped-out, basic version of linux, with like a hlaf dozen programs installed. No great feat, and most high-end motherboards have similar capabilities these days.
May 17th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
40gbps is a waste. You’d be bottlenecked by every other internet connection out there. There wouldn’t be any way to download a full dvd in 2 seconds. No else would be serving that fast and her hard drives wouldn’t even be able to write the data that fast. I doubt she’d see downloads greater than 10-20mbps at the very most.
May 31st, 2009 at 11:14 pm
We’ll look back at this in 5 years time and lol
June 4th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
you could build that “worlds fastest pc” there for 2000 pounds easy
June 6th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
She must kick ass on Unreal Tournament.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:53 am
jlovato has a point, I want to see an HDD capable of writing 5 gigabytes a second.
It sure is fun to attach an empty HDD with 500 GB free, then fill it within 100 seconds, but you’d want to keep tons of memory free as the disk itself won’t cope with writing.
Though I’ll sound like a real dreamer here, I’d like to see more connections instead of higher speeds. My current connection allows me only 100 KB/s at most, and if at least 50% of Internet users had a 1 Gbps connection it’d be just fine for a few years.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:16 am
that was crazy
if we give her the desktop and the printer as well with that connection she might just create another universe
August 16th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
A 5 second boot from cold may sound useful to be honest im struggling to think of practical applications for a machine such as this, unless you where a spy or supervillan lol