overall system performance is really being limited by a number of things now.. small increases in mhz with the same type of processor will yield little gain. (866 p3 to 1ghz p3)
now a 850 celeron to 1ghz p3 will be quite noticeable..
otherwise IMO processors are jumping ahead a little too fast, things like ram speeds, bus speeds, and hard drive speeds need to do some catching up to really get the most out of these 1ghz+ processors.
it's sort of like how the geforce2's can theoretically have staggeringly high performance numbers if it wasn't for the DDR memory bandwidth constraints of current memory types when you go past 1024x768 resolution.. just look at the benchmarks of a geforce2 ultra in high res vs 640x480 or lower
If the memory bottleneck wasn't there then we'd be playing all games at 1024x768 res or higher with 4x FSAA without a single hiccup in framerate(rock steady 85fps if monitor at 85hz).
personally I can't wait to see these improvements and wish they would come sooner. The nvidia Nforce is hopefully just the beginning.
I want a motherboard with a minimum of 512mb of ram running at the same clock speed as the processor, a 2nd or 3rd socket built in for a 3d processor instead of having to buy AGP cards. The 3d processors themselves would have on chip 128mb of memory for maximum bandwidth potential.. this would all be connected by the system bus capable of like a terabyte/second or more. There should also be a built in NIC capable of 1gb/sec. There would be no more need for IRQ's/com ports/etc. One other nice thing would be cases with built in solid state disk drives of like 20GB capacity where you install the operating system and other disk intensive apps/games
It would all be cheap also!
well one can dream
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