Just A simple Question?

[Chuggerboom]

Surely an i7 chip overclocked at 4.0Ghz plus is enough?

What do you want your computer to do apart from fly to the moon?

What do you guys want?

 

[Doughnut007]

3.2 is good enougth for me, for now.

Predict the future with an accuracy rateing of 100%.

You to stop posting pointless new threads....

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Surely an i7 chip overclocked at 4.0Ghz plus is enough?

What do you want your computer to do apart from fly to the moon?

What do you guys want?

You actually aren't wrong to be honest.. My overclocked q6600 @ 3.7GHz is more than sufficient for my needs. However, this isn't just about clock speeds anymore, it's about increasing efficiency, multi tasking (threaded applications), multi-operations (on-chip memory controllers, graphics, NB etc) and so forth..

bear in mind to, that the CPU sends instructions to the GPU to process. As newer cards sport higher frequencies and bandwidths, bottlenecking can occur if the instructions aren't being sent quick enough. For example, the my 5870 is slightly bottlenecked by my CPU on higher settings. I know this because all real game bench marks are identical on most of the higher higher settings. There's definitely a plateau and any overclocking of the GPU reaps zero benefit. However, increasing the CPU does which suggests the CPU is holding the GPU back..

With that said, there's nothing at the moment this won't play but at some stage, the software will start demanding more. I'll most likely skip the Nehalem and look at the SandyBridge or bulldozer architecture when they arrive in the new year.

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

I want to single handedly complete the SETI program. I think I'm still a few ghz short.

 

[just Scott]

Streaming a PC game in relatively decent quality (720p @ 1000kbps). Q6600 doesn't even come close to being able to do this. Only i7s can, and they sometimes struggle.

 

[cammy5477]

its human nature to want to go bigger faster better......

 

[kristmace]

Some people HAVE to have the latest hardware. Fairplay if they need it and can afford it. Most people can compromise.

 

[garyfl]

have mine at stock and its never risen above 15% and i do intense audio manipulation.