Oh yes..there is the overclocking stuff. I just don't trust it though. I know you can get chips and cards to be really stable at higher clock speeds..but...I just dunno. There have been instances where, especially for gaming, little inconsistencies are introduced for some reason with graphics card overclocking. As we started seeing more True DX9 games on the market, people started getting problems with Overclocked cards which had previously worked perfectly with other less demanding titles.
I'm not sure whether Processors will face the same problems, maybe not...but I just don't trust the overclocking thing. I know it shortens chip life, and can potentially cause other long term problems with a system. The link http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2879&p=12 doesn't quite back up that the seperate 4 core approach by AMD has much of a benefit over the Intel Quad Core solution with today's apps. That's a bit surprising, but as I mentioned in a previous post, I don't think our apps are really written to take full advantage of multi-core systems. In fact, I don't even think there are much if any 64-bit apps on the market. Those two technologies- Multi-core processing and 64-Bit Apps may actually take a few years well before we start seeing tangible benefits in our daily computing life over and above being able to encode a video while browsing/playing a game. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221622 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
