CPUs as performance bottlenecks

[vlad321]

Since a little after 2000 computers I have owned have basically alternated between nvidia and ATI/AMD and They are both the exact same fucking shit. The only difference is that ATI drivers have the reputation of shitty for a good reason, but there was also the occassional nvidia driver that really fucked things up. Most recently around the start of the yeare there was one that woudl overheat your card and destroy it.

However, nVidia does have PhysX and more importantly CUDA, which are absolutely fucking awesome. Also the scalavility of SLI of the 400 series is absolutely sick. 100% in some games, I mean holy shit that's something right there. I am currently running a nice and hot 480 (it's actually very useful as a space heater since my roommates like it colder than I do, and the PC keeps the temperature just right, I know it's weird but there you go). Maybe one day I'll be able to cook an egg on it.

 

OT: YEs you can have CPU bottlenecks, especially in games that are now optimized for multiple cores. You'd be surprised how many things aren't oprimized, plus there are some things that just don't benefit from 4 cores in the first place (not necessarily games). Furthermore if you do anything other than just gaming and lightweight use liek the internet and music, then you want a better CPU. I was suepr glad for my CPU when I had to run and analyze some machine learning algorithms last semester.

P.S. Just an interesting fact. Faster clocked single-core processors ARE better for most programs, however they just happen to be extremely hot. As my architecture professor used to joke, the Pentium 4 had the heat dissipatoin of a nuclear reactor. I would murder people to get my hands on an 8ghz processor.