Thread: Are cpus losing their clout?

I concur with this guy quite much to a T. I would increase it by saying it wasn't even a decade before that this occurred though. I'd say it occurred on a minor scale with the Athlon and then enormous with the core2's. What I signify by that is, you used to be equal to swamp down a computer, "have too many windows open", not can minimize a game lacking it locking up your whole system for 3 minutes. Well, at this time we are past that and have been for two or 3 years. I confront you to hold up any quad core with a pile of random programs. It's damned near unfeasible.

And, to the comment of the OP some posts back, if the original thread was in views to "gaming fan".....when was the last time the CPU was the choosing factor? As long as I can remember, the GPUs have ALWAYS been the block. I'd say the gpu's have idles way more than the processors. The 8800Gtx I used was on top of the market for a year. How does that occur? Also, a few years down the road, this thing is still holding its own. You can't actually say that about a P4.

I think generally computer development has delayed because software developers are just going following money before high-tech stuff. People just desire to persist at the biggest market to create money and since all this matter we're talking about has become more reasonable and mainstream lately, I think we'll be wedged around here for a while.

So, you’re proverb an old C2Q is 3 times slower than an i7 currently? Much like your old GTX is evaluated to a 5870 or a 295? I think not.

This isn’t about gaming, its just 1 custom average Joe does, but the generally usages, which have been handled pretty well by cpus for awhile now and stagnation has developed in, unless you can illustrate me a cpu today that’s 3 times faster than a C2Q, around the same launch dates as your GTX.