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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The PC bottleneck would be the GUI still, right? Windows, that is.


2 posted on 02/14/2007 4:16:15 PM PST by RightWhale (300 miles north of Big Wild Life)
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To: RightWhale

Well AMD bought ATI and is talking about moving the Graphic processor onto the chip....memory is the single biggest bottle neck at the moment ...look at what Intel has done with cache.,....half of their chips are filled with cache memory....big reason for their latest performance bump....


4 posted on 02/14/2007 4:27:35 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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To: RightWhale

I think you could say right now only the gamers are slowed down by the Graphics card....I can run Beryl on a low end nVidia GE6200 PCI Express card,...it uses 3D instructions of the Video Graphics card....performs decently.


6 posted on 02/14/2007 4:31:07 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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To: RightWhale

The harddrive is the bottleneck in a pc, no matter how fast and how much ram, permanent data still has to be read/written from/to much slower harddrives.


9 posted on 02/14/2007 5:37:15 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless America and All who protect and preserve this Great Nation.)
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