my friend seems to think the cmos will. hes majoring in microelectronic engineering so im inclined to believe him.. but i dono, the benchmarks talk louder than he does right now.
he tells me hes seen the core 2 duo design and its fairly simple in comparison with athlon 64 considering how new it is and such... like AMD integrated way more into the processor than intel did, making things closer and faster for how cool it really runs.
i mean, the type of speed doubling with dual core and then doubling again with quad core is just isn't going to be satisfied with a single motherboard and such... they're going to have to leave the pci bus behind and completely use pci-express if computers are going to increase in speed enough.
i mean there are certain step for things to happen in a computer, you've got to think of it realtime as in everything happening simultaneously and also step by step 4ms for one thing to happen and 4ms for another thing. sure, quad core cut the processors 4ms down to 1ms, but the other parts in the computer still take their time to do stuff...
a bottleneck isnt necessarily a wall that you hit, its more of one thing effecting it more slowly than another part in the computer...
like intels fsb vs. ddr2 memory bandwidth, i tested earlier and i had significant increases from ddr2 533 to ddr2 667 and ddr2 800 all running 4-4-4-12 and 1066mhz fsb.
well, then i tested at ddr2 667 4-4-4-12 and 1333mhz fsb, and it outperformed ddr2 800 4-4-4-12 1066mhz fsb by about 100-200mbps
this means that increasing the fsb i got a better increase in comparison with increasing my memories bandwidth. overclocking both alongside each other would give me the best increase, but overclocking one still decreases the amount of time the information spent in that area.... which is the type of thing that AMD is trying to increase... how much time the info spends at certain places in the system i guess. or so my friend claims.
there was never a need to make the cmos and such better, but with quad core there will be a need for it i guess. im not sure how it works but my buddy knows wut hes talking about...
