Sometimes a cpu family turns out to have higher performance than is appropriate for its position in the marketing hierarchy. That is probably what leads to clock speeds being locked as the manufacturers don't want to cannibalise the market for their more expensive "higher performance" products. John
Ricky snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
The whole reason for downscaling is power reducetion and heay loss reducetion. These finfet etc designs conduct better as well, so all function improves, which should be a boon for OC folks.
I remember my first AMD machine that fried the CPU and MOBO instantly from a less than interfaced heat sink.
Then my second was a dual CPU design which was all I would own until now when they are multi core monsters. But even it had far better thermal management. ALL of my Intel i series builds never had a thermal problem. I am currently on a 12 core Xeon with a Quadro graphics card screaming out 3D designs and renderings like cake. Little bitty dust plugged fans still kep it cool, even those it exibits a bit of heat depending on what I do with it. I have to blow it out again soon. I don't use the little cans, I have a compressor tank. I use it on my laser engraver to blow the dust away as it 'burns' a surface. I am really impresed with the quality of walmart's cheap tool line. I have an orbital sander that has dust collection and a bag built in and a dust cap on the power switch... really nice design, and it was $15 !!! No way! Back in the seventies an orbital cost you way more and those were way harder to get dollars then too. Amazing how electronic and electrical devices are about the only thing that still keeps the dream... better and better, and cheaper and cheaper (less pricey)life gets easier and the world never notices if they get raised around devices. They are oblivious to the path that got us here.
You should see the technology in hospitals and even dental labs now... amazing stuff. As we croak, they'll have robots doing everything as they become fat body recliner potatoes like in that movie WALL-E. And the 'leaders' of the world go 'round nuking each other.
I wonder if after today they are going to update the doomsday clock again. Jan 20 put it at 100 seconds to midnight.
Sadly I think we are a lot closer than that.
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