Intel CPUs that are OVER 10 GHZ???!! By 2005WTF??!

[LumberJack]

I don't think this can be applied today. We are rapidly getting less and less use out of faster cpu's because of other external peripherals which bog down the system. I mean even today, high end cpus are usefull to gamers, video and sound enthusiasts, academia and the business market. I mean at some point you will be pulling so many fps from quake 3 that it won't make a difference any more; law of diminishing returns for those of you who are interested.

To err is human... to really screw things up you need a computer!

 

[flamethrower205]

but then that cpu power will be necessary when they make quake 4 (just to use this as an analogy).

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

 

[LumberJack]

Yeah but see there are peripheral issues. Will your H/D keep up? will your graphics card keep up? More visibly, your screen is probably going to start limiting your graphics aswell. This will also need upgrading, but at some point you eyes will not be able to tell the difference between frame rates, texture mapping etc... So what then? You see intel knows this, hence HT which is meant to cater to other needs such as multitasking more than the sheer need to run UK3 at some rediculous speed.

To err is human... to really screw things up you need a computer!

 

[flamethrower205]

lol, we are nowhere near that stage. HD can keep up, goto 10K, 15K rpm, then perhaps to ram drives. Graphics cards are ahead imo of cpu's in that the fastest can't be utilized to their fullest yet. It's not only games we're talking about here, and graphics can really, really improve- once games r lifelike in that people look exactly like people and there are all the minor details, and worlds are absolutely real, then games can call it quits, but until then, keep working and that'll take massive power. Furthermore, there are many more applications which cannot be processed efficiently. Take for example any NP complete problem- I dun care how fast a cpu u have, it's still gonna take a lot of time to process with increasing complexity.

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

 

[LumberJack]

No... I agree, things will get better and faster and I can't wait. I just think that we will hit a wall sometime. As for storage solutions well magnetic memory is in development right now and will probably be the next level or ram (this stuff is really fast) while I predict solid state HD's in the next few years.

BAM!...

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To err is human... to really screw things up you need a computer!

 

[dhlucke]

I think everyone has to respect the future game that will use 3Ghz of processing power for bot intelligence.

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[flamethrower205]

I doubt we will. Anyways, I expect within 25 years we'll be dealing with a whole new type of computing- quantum computing. That'll be fun w/ fully capable parallel processing and quantum parallelism and superpositions and the gliven (no, I don't look like professor Frink though I wish I did hehe).

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

 

[jimbo99]

Believe it or not when computers were first released there were ppl that couldn't find much to do with them. No programs per se, no real tasks (except government, university, and research). It took a long time for the ideas for which they could be used to come to be.

Whether we are devising fewer and fewer ways to use the computer isn't really the issue since we are just talking about the way it was, and is, and always has been.

As time progresses we will do more. Not one task that requires more power but multiple tasks that require power. Each of us reading this could probably think of 10 things that we don't use the computer for that would benefit us.

Our main problem is the lack of innovative thinking that hold us back and fosters that sort of "we can't do much more" thinking.

Anyone remember starcop with box?

 

[imgod2u]

Voice recognition, speech recognition, real-time realistic 3d image generation, holographics, Solitare. The day I can have my own holodeck that can simulate an environment beyond that which any of my senses can comprehend as being "fake", I will be satisfied and probably won't get out enough to upgrade anyway

"We are Microsoft, resistance is futile." - Bill Gates, 2015.

 

[sonoran]

"Nature abhors a vacuum." - FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Nature abhors unused CPU cycles. - Sonoran