The AMD 3200 is like a 2.4ghz, and is much slower then the P4 3.2ghz.
I would stay away from AMD, cause there is so many problems with AMD and gaming, like look at the World of Warcraft support forum, the number one issue (error 131) only happens with AMD processors.
Most gaming companies...
Yes. My desktop has 2 satas, and 2 patas in it without any issue. I had a problem with my mobo reconizing seagate sata drives. It reconizes the WD without issue. I bought a cheap-o sata controller and it reconizes both without issue.
Have you tried using VMWare to reduce hardware? I use it for testing my application with legacy OS, or beta applications like Sql Server 05, BizTalk, etc. Just by copying the Virtual Machine File you can version the machine as well.
I have a VMWare Virtual Machine for:
Windows 03 Ent Server +...
You have no idea what he uses them for, so how can you say its backwards? My server is a P3-700, while my desktop is a P4-3.2g. I dont want to play games on my 700mhz, and my File Server doesnt need a P4 - 3.2 ghz cpu.
I know if you keep increasing the block size it isn't going to go up forever, you will eventually peak somewhere. However, in this graph it is peaking near or has hit the PCI bus speed bottleneck.
PCI bus is capped at 133mb/s.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/promise-fts150-tx4_9.html
Here is bench marks of a SATA raid hitting over 100mb/s. The PCI bus of 133mb/s is shared with all PCI components. Even if you have an on-board sound, nic, etc, it probably uses the PCI...
Games are going multi-threaded, and it's very easy to divide the game out to support multi-threading.
1 thread for UserInput
1 thread for rendering to the display
1 thread for AI
1 thread ....
This is why Xbox 360 has 6 threads, and the PS3 has 8 core threads.
Most games only use a single...
A "weathly" home user isn't stuck with dual-core processing.
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=pe6800pad&s=biz
Install Windows 03 Server on this, and your favorite game.
The only difference in the machine you pointed out and a server was someone took a 4...
Uhh... you completely missed what this conversation was about... We are not talking about the number of CPUs in a system, we are taking about the technology OF A processor, not the number of processors.
btw; I hope you dont think a four CPU machine is new, HP has had a 128 Intel Itanium...
Fact 1) The PCI bus is limited to a max transfer rate of 133mb/s.
Fact 2) A standard SATA drive is 150mb/s.
Between these two facts, a SATA can not put data through the PCI bus faster than 133mb/s.
So if you had a 4 drive SATA raid0, with an output of 600+ mb/s, your still only going to get...