Moore’s Law in Computer Design

According to Moores’s Law the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles each 18 monts, approximately. According to my limited experience this can be applied to computer design. Say that you need a gaming computer for the next 18 monts. What you consider a nice gaming computer today is one with an AMD Phenom II X4 965 quad core processor, 4 GB of memory, 500 GB of disk and a AMD Radeon HD5770 graphics card of 1 GB. Your new computer will then need a processor with a capacity similar to the AMD FX-Series FX-8150 octa core processor, 8 GB of memory, 1 TB of disk and a graphics card with a capacity similar to an AMD Radeon HD7870 of 2 GB. The passmark of the AMD FX-Series FX-8150 is about the double of the passmark of the AMD Phenom II X4 965. The passmark of the AMD Radeon HD7870 is about the double of the passmark of the AMD Radeon HD5770.