Originally posted by surge
whats the point in making 2.8 ghz cpu's
its not as if the home user is running CAD programs all day or constantly using all that power to play games or stuff. if ppl want to over clock then i dont see why they shouldent, but for companys like Intel to make 2.8 p4's and faster is just stupid.
Wow. An
incredibly shortsighted comment!! I actually laughed out loud when I read that ...
No offense intended, of course
- I mean everyone is entitled to their own opinion...
I don't run CAD programs of any kind, but I do enjoy gaming on my PC. With the level of performance demanded by upcoming titles, such as UT 2003, I think a lot of gamers are going to realize that faster is not just better, it is NECCESARY. Have you seen the GPU Scaling tests at Anandtech.com?
Here's a link, in case you haven't. Based on the performance of UT 2003 using a GF4 4600, you can clearly see the effect of CPU scaling in relation to framerates. It seems that for the next generation of games, a CPU equal to or faster than the XP2100 will be neccesary in order to provide advanced GPU/VPU's with data at a fast enough speed.
In fact, another test which was just published this morning shows this to be true as well - in his
review of the new Radeon 9700, Anand shows that even in current games like JK2, the CPU is the limiting factor - and he was using a 2.4GHz Pentium 4!! His comment: "...it's pretty sad when a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 can't feed these cards data quick enough to avoid it becoming the bottleneck."
As games and graphics cards continue to advance, it is neccesary for CPU's to keep pace - something which they are barely doing now. Is a 2.8GHz CPU absolutely neccesary right now? No - but when I build my new system next month, that's exactly what I'll be using - some of us do use our computers for more than email and surfing, and the last thing we want is a 2.4GHz CPU to slow us down ...
mavis