Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?

[bennyboy]

Moore's law is indeed alive and well. One just has to look in the correct venue.

I must be looking in the wrong venue, then. According to even the most conservative estimates of Moore's Law, my Coffee Lake build in 2018 should be > than 4X as powerful as my Sandy Bridge build in 2011. In reality, it would be doing good to achieve even twice as powerful.

How do you justify the statement that Moore's law is alive and well?

I didn't believe you either, but there are quite a lot of articles about this that are one or two years old.

I talked to an LG engineer (I live in Korea and teach corporate English sometimes), and he said that they actually have to account for quantum tunneling effects now because the circuitry is so tight; electrons will a certain % of the time jump tracks so to speak.  In other words, they are near that physical limit where you can't really just have single-molecule-chain circuits, because the quantum field effects make error-checking very difficult.

Or something.