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i don't get the feeling that the cpu is the biggest bottleneck in gaming. i mean i am following some of the upcoming graphics engines and yet games in the next two years appear to be built around current technology. Now I have a socket 754 clawhammer 3400, and it appears to me that in gaming is it fine. in Doom 3 my video card is the bottle neck. if we should ever see an sli solution for socket 754 then that resulting computer should be a decent gaming maching for years to come. but even PICe is a nice addition.

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Athlon 64 bit 3400
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Maxtor 40, 120
Western Digital Raptor 74 Gig
ATI AIW Radeon 9700 Pro
NEC LCD Monitor 1760NX
Antec Tru Power 550
Windows XP
 
When you get into the high-end cards (6800U or x850xt), running games at high res with aa/af enabled, then the bottleneck becomes the CPU.

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will the cpu "bottleneck" for 64 bit cpus be as pronounced if they were playing 64 bit compiled games?? Microsoft already said that programmers/coders need to stop their 32 stuff and do 64 bit because that is the future . . the near future.

In any event, I don't see how my CPU (clawhammer) is going to be obsolete a year from now.

K8T Neo FIS2R
Athlon 64 bit 3400
2 X 256 Corsaire
Maxtor 40, 120
Western Digital Raptor 74 Gig
ATI AIW Radeon 9700 Pro
NEC LCD Monitor 1760NX
Antec Tru Power 550
Windows XP
 
hey.. Stop worrying about the future. Your CPU is a powerful one, even if it is socket 754. This is future and NOBODY knows. that's it! only speculation, nothing sure.

Just like when they announced SATA some years ago, saying that it will be becoming the new standard. Yes it is. can you still get PATA HDD. Yes you can.

There is so much nice thing to do in life that worrying about the future of your computer should be the very last thing. Is my CPU becoming obsolete? I dont care. Is my temperature normal? I dont care. Will new CPU be running on my current motherboard? I dont care.

We are today. And today, my computer run fine. When it wont, then I'll start worrying. Until there, it is spring, summer is on its way, girls are getting less and less dressed with the beautiful sun and THAT I care.

Maybe I should start worrying about my 4X4 not being adequate in the future if we get another ice age... Oh, will my house be large enough in case I'll have so many kids... I'd like to have a good air conditioner for the house because I heard about that global warming. Will my house becoming too hot???





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sata was full's gold. I have a raptor. it's not in a RAID array, but as it turns out the improvements that SATA were theoretical and in reality never get anywhere near 150 transfer rate, but neither did ATA 133 nor 100!!!! If you set up a RAID array with ATA 133 you'd still get nice performance. as it turned out, it was the RPM of the platters that spead up performance but still, not even breaking 100 when 150 was promised. Perhaps a RAID 0 array will yield closer to the theoretical performance.

I mention PCIe because it is quite a performance boost compared to AGP and the benchmarks yield that. I also doubt that SLI will ever be available to socket 754.

K8T NeoFIS2R
Athlon 64bit 3400
2X256 Corsaire
Maxtor 40, 120
Western Digital Raptor 74 Gig
ATI AIW Radeon 9700 Pro
NEC LCD Monitor 1760NX
Antec Tru Power 550
Windows XP
 
**ROFL** The point of SATA wasn't to be any faster. The point was just to get rid of those <explitive never entered> PATA cables. And I still have to laugh that IDE is <i>still</i> only at 10K RPMs. SCSI rules the roost. (Though it'd be nice if SATA could <i>finally</i> catch up with SCSI.)

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I have 10,000rpm SCSI and SATA drives. I like the Raptor best, and not sure I need the extra heat nor cost of 15k drives period.

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I have 10,000rpm SCSI and SATA drives. I like the Raptor best, and not sure I need the extra heat nor cost of 15k drives period.
It's not about neeeding. It's just about options. I mean I don't even run the fastest of 7200s because I'm more concerned about noise than speed.

But if IDE could even just match SCSI for raw speed for a while, maybe I'd stop laughing at IDE then. :O Of course the protocol could still use some improvements too, but I think the latest SATA is almost good enough there.

Granted, <i>I'm</i> still waiting for a <i>north</i> bridge with integrated 6 (or 8) channel bootable RAID 0, 1,<b> 5</b> SATA similar to Intel's CSA for gigabit ethernet. (Maybe with a card for the RAID part like Intel does with SCSI if absolutely necessary.)

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