is the time of raising the clock speed over?

[ophirmadar]

My fellow nerd told me that " they say the time of clock speed is over " noow all of us want to see a 10ghz pc! otherwise we wouldnt be registered to this site!!

does anybody know what the processor manufacturers are doing?? will we see a chip like that this decade? Is it just me that wants to see faster pcs with faster clocks or what?

does anyone believe sparc or via will ever make processors to rival intel or amd any time soon. maybe make a FAST chip ?

and also. whats happening with intel/apple are those intel duo chips x86 that are going into the macs????

Post quickly! dnt want to be waiting all week

 

[Defcon5]

Clock speed doesnt relate to actual application speed though, look at the P4 vs an athlon 64.

Thoeretically it was possible to ramp netburst up to around 10Ghz but i dont think they got it past 3.5 due to the heat

Multi core is the future!

 

[ophirmadar]

yeh. but the thing is, intel are making ever soo smalll chips which are like 65nm insanely small. doesnt that mean less heat??

if you can push a standard pentium 4 to 5ghz on nitrogen cooling. which is about 130nm. im sure oneday somebody will be able to do it.

1 thing i dnt understand about multicore. doesnt it mean its going to be absolutly cooking inbetween the 2 or more cores???? how do they solve that heat problem.

 

[p4radox]

What if one day, CPUs are sold on the basis of how many cores they have, rather than their clock speed? I wonder what the equivalent of overclocking will be when that time comes - perhaps unlocking extra cores...

 

[Bookime Wood]

Who knows, but with oc becoming very popular, low end/bang for buck cpus becoming a thing of the past, and cpu manufacturing becoming more refined, I can see the day when you buy a cpu, that has a "guranteed built in oc" with highly oc cpu's a thing of the past or highly controlled, in essence you will only get what you pay for.

 

[Martynt74]

Not getting too far away especially with stupid cooling P4's are hitting 7ghz on LN2 and thats fairly average nowadays.

Though with the new lower clocked conroes and yonahs, if thats the way things are heading we're unlikely to see the same big numbers anytime soon

 

[Defcon5]

Exactly, as theres a dirve towards efficiency and work done per cycle, rather than doing the same, just faster

 

[geeza]

Who knows, but with oc becoming very popular, low end/bang for buck cpus becoming a thing of the past, and cpu manufacturing becoming more refined, I can see the day when you buy a cpu, that has a "guranteed built in oc" with highly oc cpu's a thing of the past or highly controlled, in essence you will only get what you pay for.

Or they will just make them non overclockable (or overclocked already) and have a higher price on them.

I dont understand duel cores either, i used to think they were placed seperately on the motherboard with 2 seperate fans. I didnt know they were stacked on top of each other like pancakes. they must generate LOADS of heat, or are they side cooled?

 

[GAMEfreak]

remember that the slower the core is the less volts it requires and so the less heat it gives out. there will be a limit to the clock speed of cores depending on the amount of cores per chip in my opinion, of course overclocking was never intended with cpu's in the first place was it? i think it'l be on the way out eventually, which is a shame for us

 

[NathanE]

But rest assured that clock speed will continue to rise. Manufacturing improvements such as lower micron silicon, higher speed transistors, packaging tweaks will ensure that we see MHz increments at least every year.