Are High End CPU's Worth all the money (Score 1)

CPU's except for the very latest top end are v.cheap now anyway. In all my Experience the BIG performance choke on Win NT/98/95/Linux/Unix is the hard disk/controller. old Pentium 233 much faster than PII 450 in all apps including gaming using 9Gb/7200rpm SCSI on DPT 64Mb Cached controller. Even on "cpu" intensive app's most of time spent waiting.... underclock your current pc by 25% and I'll be surprised if you can tell the difference.