why no 4 Ghz??

[ZemoButts]

why arent there any 4 Ghz computers being released?

[kennyknoxville]

little side note: did you know that if the car industry advanced as fast as computers, wed all be driving cars that went @ the speed of sound for only a nickel. woah

why arent there any 4 Ghz computers being released?

i have no clue

[Guest]

now both intel and AMD have stopped increasing clockspeed and gone for enhancing other parts of the processor (like cache)

[deffenbaugh03]

Dell XPS's have 3.8, isn't that enough for you? BTW they are amazing computers. At our school we have a whole lab full of XPS gen 5's for running 3ds Max 7.

another little side note...did you guys here about those nw cd's that hold like 120gb developed by some french company? Anyone know when they'll be available to the public.

[jaromull]

Well, I do would like the idea of using the heat generated by such a 4 GHz processor instead of central heating with a real pleasure, indeed.

[Blue Supra]

The heat punched out would warm a siberian household. as said before theyre increasing cache and bus speed. I would prefer a 2.4GHz with a 2MB cache and a 1Ghz FSB then a current average 3.4Ghz processor

[kennyknoxville]

another little side note...did you guys here about those nw cd's that hold like 120gb developed by some french company? Anyone know when they'll be available to the public.

wow. that sounds incredible. there goes the need for hard drives

[Matra et Alpine]

another little side note...did you guys here about those nw cd's that hold like 120gb developed by some french company? Anyone know when they'll be available to the public.

Given that the Sony camp and the Toshiba camp are fighting over the next gen format and each deplying their own solution, I'd not hold out for a small company on the side getting any exposure
Do you have a link ? Not likely to be worth it though with Blu Ray giving 50Gb then next technology change in media shoudl be in to 500G range - OR my favourite is the cube with no moveable parts other than a couple of laser beams Stop all this spinning discs and moving heads nonsense

[ZemoButts]

now whats cache??

as for the discs are you talking about the holographic ones?

[fa22_raptor]

little side note: did you know that if the car industry advanced as fast as computers, wed all be driving cars that went @ the speed of sound for only a nickel. woah

What a fat load of bullsh*t

[Solstice]

Intel and AMD have gone away from clockspeed. The focus of their designs have now switched to multicore processors.

[BjD]

7GHz tbh

Cache is a small amount of high speed memory mounted on the CPU die (or in the immediate vicinity on old slot based CPU's). Its used to store the data the processor is working on at that time so its not having to read/write to the system RAM as much.

[Matra et Alpine]

What a fat load of bullsh*t

Look up Moore's Law about computing complexity - computers have doubled every two years.


Now think about that for a car that could do 20mph and 10mpg a 100 years ago

Hint it works out about 40,000 mph and 20,000 mpg

So you're right for the wrong reasons, Kenny was being too conservative !!!!

[kennyknoxville]

What a fat load of bullsh*t

So you're right for the wrong reasons, Kenny was being too conservative !!!!

oh snap raptor, you got grandpopped

[tmnt_ppn]

Look up Moore's Law about computing complexity - computers have doubled every two years.

i thought it was every 18 months?