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Originally Posted by JJkiller
I agree. I can't believe you were called an idiot for this. I have a computer in my basement that is now 8 years old. Its a P2 450 mhz, has 512 SD ram, a 16 MB Video Card, and even ISA slots. This computer has an AGP slot. Does it really make sense for a computer bought 4 years later to not have an AGP slot? I remember when I was doing co-op at my high school in grade 12, the computers (in a school...) had AGP slots.
As well, and correct me if I'm wrong, but does the bus connect the cards and, well, other stuff connected to the motherboard to the RAM and CPU? If anything I'd think the cache would be the place for a bottleneck (notice the cache sizes have been increasing?)
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You are not exactly correct. Neither is Janet Jackson over there.
@JJkiller: Cache size is increasing because cache "pre-loads" (or caches) actions in the processor. For example, when you open a program, it loads certain actions and their responses in the cache. The bus is the bottleneck - in INTEL, it operates at 1/3 the processor speed.
@Janet JacksonThere are MANY bottlenecks in a computer. The user is a huge slowdown to the computer - the computer must idle/wait for the users response to certain things - can lead to a bottleneck of events. The printer, hard drive, cd drive, floppy drive, even usb devices are bottlenecked. I will continue to criticize Intel because unlike AMD, they have refuted fixing their bottleneck, they insist on leaving it as is and instead increasing processor speed. Many stupid people (like myself currently due to lack of finance) insist that updating the processor and ram will speed everything up - WRONG. The bus speeds need to be updated. Dual-core is 'new' and 'good', however, Intel STILL has the bottleneck - so what, you have "2 virtual CPU's" - you STILL have 1 bus transporting the data to the RAM to be processed. Granted, it does speed up the computer greatly, but nowhere near as great as a faster bus would. Hardware specifically can get very fuzzy and extremely complicated - I essentially go off on tangents because my mind thinks much quicker than I can type. That there is a bottleneck, too much info from my brain trying to get to my fingers. My fingers are the reason for the bottleneck - my nervous transports data faster than a computer can process data. Anyways, I might just deal with 768 MB ram and a P4 2.2 Ghz processor with an Nvidia GeForce 5500 256 MB.
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