No sense buying technology that's outmoded already and won't do what I need. Yes it does matter that speeds are getting faster, because speed is needed, and the market knows this. To argue that speed is not really needed is just pointless, and until you own a business and see the increase in performance that faster computers give you, there is no arguement. I just recently acquired new computers with 1.1ghz athlon processors, and the increased speed is tremendously beneficial. The speed cuts minutes to hours off of turn around time, and I can only imagine how fast that our business software will be able to run with even faster CPUs, especially when multi-tasking.
Speed is key, and it can only get faster from here.
The main bus needs to be improved but 4x100 is a good step toward showing that mb are one of the many bottle necks. If anyone wants to know how to run benchmarks superfast make a ram drive and see what it does for prefromance. Perhaps you can supply some links to any information regarding SCCI as I am not familiar with this type of hard drive. It doesnt really matter how fast the hard drive or the bus speed on the p4 is, because its FPU is worst then almost any other chip's. until intel fixes this, the p4 will continue to be one of the lesser performing processors out there. I say switch to Linux if you haven't already, and buy UP1000 Motherboard along with an Alpha 21264 microprocessor.