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Originally Posted by UnseenMenace
Originally Posted by soniceffect
I have a single core AMD overclocked in a Vapochill case with a 2gb Corsair XMS gigabyte iRAM drive and Geforce 8800 GTX SLI which would out benchmark most dual core gaming rigs simply because its strength and what is important for gaming is not raw power but bandwidth and I get this from the Geforce Graphic cards and the iRAM solid state drive
You really dont understand how much of a bottle neck your cpu is for that graphics card do u...?? id like to see some pics and benchmarks of that
No you really got me there... I really do not understand about bottlenecks and honestly believed that a processor bottleneck occurs when one or more processes take up nearly all the time of all processors on the computer. In a bottleneck, processor threads ready to be executed must wait in a queue for processor time. All other activity comes to a halt until the queue is cleared, I take it my understanding is wrong.... please explain how
Obviously because I have two Graphic Cards with lots of memory linked through SLI (Scalable Link Interface) and featuring dedicated GPU (Graphics Processing Unit's) which provide dedicated graphics rendering which I believe is more effective than a typical CPUs for such a task... I expect that you can understand why I would have believed that these GPU's would execute the dedicated graphic related threads thus reducing overall loading on the CPU, because less demand is placed on the processor simply because the GPU's are processing the graphic demands I would obviously assume that the opportunity to bottleneck would also be reduced, I take it my understanding is wrong.... please explain how
Now when you take into consideration that most games such as BF2142 have not been programmed to take advantage of multi-threading features available to dual core processors and the fact that most of the loading from a game is graphically based rendering.... I sure you can understand why I make the assumptions above.
Now obviously I enjoy being educated and look forward to understanding why a 3.08 Ghz Opteron is a such a bottleneck to performance in a system running SLI graphic cards and a solid state RAM drive..
dual core, 64bit is most certainly the future but currently lack support and this is what the real problem is at present.. I have no doubt that given an application to take full advantage of the dual core and 64bit processors features that they are awesome... but how many applications are you actually aware of which do this ??
Benchmarks are bullshit... they do not provide a true comparision between systems as the benchmarks being compared are usually done on systems in different locations and as such results are subject to different ambient conditions..... they are the stuff of dreamers, they also take advantage of processor features not widely used in applications presently and because of this they give a false indication of how a processor performs in the real world today... they are also insecure and very very easy to fake which puts a question over the whole benchmark thing itself
Heres a socket A 800mhz Duron
If I was to start doing Windows benchmarks I would have to do them in a virtual machine as I do not run Windows through choiceon my systems, this also produces unreliable and exceptionally high results.... I also have little desire to install Windows to post benchmarks which offer nothing of value as I have liitle need to extend my 'E'-penis
My own systems run Ubuntu Linux, Darwin, BSD and ReactOS as I want Operating Systems which are stable and secure