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Originally Posted by 2ndgenz28
What bugs me about new PC is member the mhz wars?
once we reached 1000, the race was over, now several years later new fancy machines are still under 4ghz, we should have 12ghz machines by now in cheap PCs.
Yea I know they go on n on about multi core, speed stepping and bla bla bla
all excuesses to not ramp up the ghz to the next lvl as they stopped racing each other.
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Understand that the processor is not the bottleneck in a computer's performance today. The slowest subsystem today is storage. I.E. harddrive.
What you are seeing in machines today that was not possible a few years ago is parallel processing. More physical cores per processor. I.E. 2, 3, 6, 8, 12 core processors are on the market at this moment. This is the equivalent to running several physical processors in your machine several years ago. Processing capacity has increased 10 fold.
Storage subsystems are progressing and may even merge with memory subsystems in the not so distant future. Another leap in computing capacity.
None of this takes into account biometric computing which is on the near horizon too.
We live in an exciting time and as long as we don't destroy ourselves, the next 100 years will be the most prominent time in the existence of the human race.
A bit "outside of the box" thinking but this is where we are headed.
