intel

[DarkWhisper]

Are the days of high stock settings gone. The most ive seen the lastest cpus is just over 3ghz like 3.33ghz i7 and 3.2ghz 9770. remember the days when they was a pent d 3.6ghz and so on. Why cant intel do i 4ghz stock cpu. am sure they have the tec.

 

[PhillyDee]

Clock speed isnt the be all and end all anymore.

Why have a 4ghz cpu when you can have a 4 core with HT enabled (Making it essentially an 8 core cpu).

clock speed really means nothing! Only useful for comparing within the same range.

 

[Namak]

Yeah as PhillyDee says Ghz is useless to compare speed except between CPUs based on the same architecture. Normally that is because they are pretty much the same CPU just more or less crippled.

Clock for Clock an i7 will be much faster than a couple generations old regardless of ghz.

I think that there is somesort of wall that you hit at around 4Ghz and it gets much harder to push past that so other ways are found of improving speed.

Cache size, numbers of cores and more importantly architecture changes all help push the speed up.

 

[mmj_uk]

Newer CPU's do more work per cycle (mhz) compared to P4's, infact P4's came into a lot of stick when they were first released because they did much less work per cycle than a P3, I remember a 1Ghz P3 was about as fast as a 1.4-1.5ghz P4.

 

[fizzle-187]

I wonder how the new i5's overclock :S