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Originally Posted by Carbon The removal of the FSB and such will have pretty noticeable effects on performance. I would still wait for the 32nm shrink in 2010, though - it's not until then that it's likely CPU power is going to be a bigger deal. I remember reading a thread from back in the Geforce 3 days where they were discussing the same thing - how the CPU is not the bottleneck and you should spend your money on the GPU. |
Yea, I suppose, I'll have to see how my budget goes, and how much I can wait. I might actually make a topic asking for people opinions on it, so if anyone is going to take this part of the convo further off topic, save it for my topic I'll make tomorrow morning.
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