Intel i7-4770k overclocked to 8.0 GHz

Post by marblar » Tue, May 07, 2013, 3:25 AM UTC

shawnz wrote: post #9

kunai wrote: post #2

I'm a bit saddened that nearly ten years after we reached 3GHz, desktop clock speed increase has come to a halt. I know that FSB speeds are irrelevant now more than ever with multithreading and multi-core architectures, but the performance afforded by high-clock chips in high-demand areas, along with multi-core technology, it seems could be far greater than it is now. Especially with several 8GHz nodes, it seems like…

> I know that FSB speeds are irrelevant now more than ever with multithreading and multi-core architectures Clock speeds have been irrelevant ever since there has been more than one architecture for the same instruction set. You cannot compare a 3GHz i7 with a 3GHz Pentium 4 of equal core count and say that, just because the clock is ticking at the same speed, Intel isn't doing enough to improve performance. There wo…

Post by jwfergus » Sun, May 19, 2013, 11:15 PM UTC

t0 wrote: post #10

jwfergus wrote: post #8

I'm skeptical. I don't know the exact breakpoint, but pushing enough power through the small (and very dense) circuits of a processor can't go beyond a certain level based on our current CPU cooling technology. The heat at that density just becomes too high and too localized.

Liquid nitrogen or helium. But if someone went to the trouble to use these substances, they'd likely show it in action instead of some computer screen.