Having moved to very fast SSDs and ramdrives in some cases, it amazes me how many applications can't take advantage of them. It's terrible when you have an app that appears to be IO bound on disk and move it to fast drives only to get a 2x speedup, while even a single cpu core isn't maxed out.
I bought a gaming laptop with a "theoretically" midrange GPU (it is in practice a shitty GPU, nVidia took a true midrange GPU, removed half of the chip, and overclocked it, hoping it will stay with midrange performance, instead the thing just overheats) and a Core i7...
It is a waste of money, I rarely see 100% CPU use, the few times I saw 100% CPU use was demoscene stuff, or some russian compression programs (that can do amazing stuff, like compress 60gb downloads into 20gb, but take 2 hours at 100% CPU to decompress).
It is evne worse that some games that theoretically would need all the CPU (games that has lots of entitites, or are physics or AI intensive), instead just have thousands of cache misses while they loop through their entities in the memory, and the CPU gets used like 20%.
Having moved to very fast SSDs and ramdrives in some cases, it amazes me how many applications can't take advantage of them. It's terrible when you have an app that appears to be IO bound on disk and move it to fast drives only to get a 2x speedup, while even a single cpu core isn't maxed out.