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Excuse my simple logic...

Gundog48

Gundog48

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This may sound a bit troll sciencey to you, but to me it seems to make sense. After building main AMD systems, I built my first Intel system at the weekend with an i5 Sandybridge CPU. What struck me was the physical side of the chip- it was really small in comparison to my Phenom II.

So, if the power of a CPU is determined by the number of transistors on the die, which is (other than reducing power consumption) why smaller manufacturing processes are better, why not just make a bigger chip so that you are able to have a higher number of transistors, seems common sense to me but I'm sure there is a good reason why this doesn't work!

Problem, science? :P
 
So essentially:
  • It would increase the number of operations that could be carried out per clock cycle
  • The clock speed of the CPU would be unaffected or dropped
  • It would not run anything faster, but could theroetically do more at once
  • It throws up loads of manufacturing issues such as more room for error and architecture design

I think I've got the gist of it! Quite interesting stuff for someone who has very limited knowledge of CPU architecture!
 
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