Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2562 Difficulties
But at the same time, Xia Duo also realized a problem, besides the arcane string, what other materials can withstand the long-term operation of the magic computer?

The current experiment is just a double-string 5-ring lifting ring calculator, which can be fully supported by Mithril, but what about the future?

Is it possible that you can only make such a small-scale calculator?

This is almost deadlocked. The calculation core component of the magic computer is not an energy guide component that can reflect the energy operation rules of the magic net, but it still needs to bear a large amount of energy exchange.

The material must be good, but not so good that it will be assimilated by the magic net!

Realizing this problem, Xia Duo was almost blinded. If this problem is not solved, he can even imagine the state of the magic computer in the future——

High cost and frequent maintenance!
Leaving aside the extent to which the advantages can be achieved, these two dense disadvantages alone make him very pessimistic about the application prospects of magic computers.

The high cost does not matter to him in the future, as long as he can find the elemental composition of mithril, the corresponding is nothing more than production capacity, this is not a serious problem.

The problem is frequent maintenance, which will greatly damage the practicability of the magic computer, unless the problems encountered in the future can be calculated in a short period of time, but how is this possible?
There must be some problems that require long-term calculations, and even many of his ideas are based on the long-term operation of magic computers.

If it is maintained frequently, what is the use value?

It is conceivable that if Mithril is used as the material of the core computing components, as long as the volume is large, it is likely to be turned on once, and maintenance will start after a few seconds.

How can such an application prospect not make people feel pessimistic?
As for the David String, which is the next level to the Bioneng String, there is indeed no need to worry about being assimilated by the magic net, but the stability of the material itself is even worse, and its existence requires additional support devices.

If it is used in a magic computer, perhaps the support device will be larger than the computer, and the cost will be higher. This is a bit similar to an ordinary laptop computer on the earth, but it has a whole building of support devices.

At that time, is this still a magic computer?

This question is worth pondering. Anyway, Xia Duo knew that if that was the case, ordinary people would obviously not be able to use magic computers.

Even a considerable number of researchers will not have the opportunity to use this kind of computer with extremely high maintenance costs, which will only be allocated to some important strategic areas in a small range.

Suddenly, Xia Duo discovered that this magical computer is a bit like the controllable nuclear fusion on the earth. There is no problem in theory, but it cannot be actually built due to many engineering problems.

If you want to make a large-scale magic computer, you need a special material. The property requires that the energy conduction property at least reach the level of standard mithril, and the most important thing is that element transmutation reactions are not easy to occur, and at the same time, it will not be affected by the magic net. assimilation.

These three requirements are somewhat similar to the "impossible triangle" in economics on Earth. If two of the requirements are met, the third is almost impossible to achieve.

For example, the energy conduction property reaches the standard mithril level, and the element transmutation reaction is not easy to occur. These two points, the latter is a necessary condition for the magic computer. Once it is not satisfied, the maintenance frequency will be greatly increased.

However, elemental transmutation reactions are unavoidable for any substance. If you want to reduce them as much as possible, you need to use materials that are essentially energy. However, the higher the nature of this type of material, the easier it is to be assimilated by the magic net.

And if you only consider that elemental transmutation reactions are not easy to occur, and that they are not assimilated by the magic net, then there are too many options, the most typical one is gold, but the energy conductivity of gold is obviously much worse than that of Mithril.

If the gold conductor wants to achieve the energy conduction level of standard mithril, it needs to make up for it with volume, at least two orders of magnitude gap, so the cost is too high, and the volume is also large.

It is conceivable that the magic computer in this situation generally has two development directions——

A material that uses Mithril and other materials with good energy-conducting properties but not stable enough for core computing components comes at the cost of frequent maintenance.

The other is to use gold and other materials with good stability but insufficient energy conductivity, at the cost of high material cost and large computer size.

Frequent maintenance is actually costly. In contrast, it seems more appropriate to use gold as the material for computer core components!
But Xia Duo was not reconciled, "Is this the only way?"

Although gold seems to be a good choice, isn't gold also an industrial material on earth?But who on earth uses gold as iron!

If the core computing components of the computer reach the million-element level, that is, the equivalent volume level of Mithra, this is not difficult to achieve, and it will develop very quickly with guidance.

After a little calculation, we can know that the amount of gold needed for a computer of this level exceeds the sum of all the wealth obtained in the past by the Savile collar + Daxia collar.

However, the wealth obtained in the past by Daxia Ling and Savile Ling was not obtained in the form of physical gold to a large extent, but reflected in transactions.

Converted into transaction volume, it is also an extremely huge number, almost [-] million gold coins, most of which come from the Mithril transaction during the construction of the floating city, and a small part is the sale of mass-produced magic items from the Tower of Time .

Spending [-] million gold coins to build a magical computer that may not be very advanced, Xia Duo thought that if he got drunk one day, he might try it.

But it is impossible for him to make such a decision when he is awake. This is not a decision that normal humans can make at all.

If 900 million gold coins is not intuitive enough, converted to a weight of almost 900 tons, who is so careless to use [-] tons of gold to make a magic computer, anyway, Xia Duo can't do it himself.

Of course, given the fact that it is just a calculator and its size is not large, it is not a bad idea to use gold as the material of the core computing components. The intermediate consumption should be regarded as the cost of researching "converting the magic effects caused by all calculations into element release effects" alright.

"What a pity! What a pity!"

Xia Duo realized that before solving the material problem, there is a high probability that the magic computer will not be born. This is not a regular magic item.

In other words, for quite a while, he probably won't be able to wait for the magic computer to process the etheric interlayer detection data collected by the Plane Exploration Center.

With this idea born, he even lost the idea of ​​completing the ring-ascending and ring-decreasing calculator right now, after all, this thing is of little use to him.

"Let's treat it as basic research!"

And basic research doesn't need to be limited to a short period of time. Xia Duo is going to make a double-string 5-ring calculator first, and then focus on the exploration of the plane.

As for the conversion of calculation effects, I put it in my usual leisure time to study it. This problem seems a bit too advanced when it is difficult for magic computers to realize it.

As for the issue of new materials, Xia Duo himself is not going to jump into this big pit, but he can support David and even more people to study.

He believes that if David was able to produce David strings before, he will definitely be able to produce new materials suitable for the core computing components of magic computers in the future!
(End of this chapter)