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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 29, 2018 at 9:07 pm
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I don't play computer games (OK, Cribbage and Sudoku), but I've used any number of DEC VAX computers. If we really wanted to get things done, we used a CRAY. Never had to overclock that bad boy. That was back in the '90s. PCs are now knocking down the kinds of number of FLOPS we got from a CRAY, back in the day. Moore's law is indeed alive and well. One just has to look in the correct venue.
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 29, 2018 at 9:37 pm
(April 29, 2018 at 9:07 pm)Fireball Wrote: 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?
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 29, 2018 at 9:55 pm
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Crazy isn't it Fireball.
5 years ago they said that an average smartphone had more computing power than All of NASA sending Armstrong to the moon and back.
The mind boggles! And what does Kit do with all that power? Takes seflies with his undies on his head! The human race is doomed I tell ya!
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 29, 2018 at 10:41 pm
(April 29, 2018 at 9:55 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Crazy isn't it Fireball.
5 years ago they said that an average smartphone had more computing power than All of NASA sending Armstrong to the moon and back.
The mind boggles! And what does Kit do with all that power? Takes seflies with his undies on his head! The human race is domed I tell ya!
Domed! Yes!  I wonder what kind of software Elon Musk uses with his Falcon rockets, to land the boosters back on the launch pad. That's fucking crazy, right there.
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 29, 2018 at 10:59 pm
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Yeah, I can't imagine your smart bombs running on DOS4.01
(you know what's really embarrassing for IBM)
They wanted to release their own OS to stick it up Bill, so they released DOS4.
It was so bugridden, they quickly released DOS 4.01 (guess who wrote it?  And the humble pie was delicious!)
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 30, 2018 at 6:10 pm
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(April 29, 2018 at 9:37 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: (April 29, 2018 at 9:07 pm)Fireball Wrote: 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.
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 30, 2018 at 7:26 pm
yeah, you can only go so far with copper... The next big paradigm change will be light!
Photon computing is a "thing"... coming to your desktop any decade now!
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 30, 2018 at 11:36 pm
LOL, not what you're interested in, but I have a 1980s vintage calculator I sent out to have a switch installed that, when activated, increases the processor speed around 75%.
It is still slow . . . .
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 30, 2018 at 11:39 pm
(April 30, 2018 at 7:26 pm)ignoramus Wrote: yeah, you can only go so far with copper... The next big paradigm change will be light!
Photon computing is a "thing"... coming to your desktop any decade now!
I don't know for sure, but I'm fairly certain it will all come down to quantum fields: superposition of a million states onto a pair of entangled electrons, etc. etc.
When that happens, we can stop worrying about chip architecture, and start worrying about how to protect a species of pretty-smart monkeys from a collection of AI machines with the computing power of galaxies.
Just kidding. . . there will be literally nothing we could possibly do, and we will be lucky if any part of humanity is incorporated into the new God we've created. All hail Googlia!
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RE: Anyone Here Done Over-Clocking a CPU?
April 30, 2018 at 11:39 pm
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Sony? HP? Texas?
I hope you don't turn it upside down and make dirty words with it?
To the young ones here, THAT was our electronic porn!
BB, I can see us in 20-50 years as total slaves to technology.
Auto cars, chip in our head for comms, internet, etc
Machines will be our overlords but they will still do what we say ....for the most part.
They'll know what will happen if they play up! In a stern voice: "Don't make me get that bucket of water again"
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