fastest single chip

[brian770]

hi all!!!
i read about the blue genie from ibm, and other super computers. but for all us non millionairs who holds the record for the fastest single chip processor? i mean one phisical cpu.is there a lab somewhere turning out a special use cpu at like 10 gigs or some other fantastic speed?
thanks
bri

[karbon86]

I think the fastest clock to date in a desktop single chip is an Intel @ 5ghz+. I'm not exactly sure if it's the best but it is the highest clock i've ever heard of. I wonder if that 3.7ghz FX-53 is a lot faster or not?

[brian770]

ya i would like to see a showdown between those two myself wide open no holds bared !!
thanks

[GrahamGarside]

I read about something called HAL ages ago, a chip that could reconfigure it's gates to adapt to the programming or something and was meant to offer super computer power in a desk top sized machine, I'll see what I can dig up
as for 3.7ghz fx vs 5ghz p4 theres no contest, the fx would cain the p4, think about it a 2.2ghz fx is faster than a 3.2ghz p4 which it is only 68% the clock speed of, where as 3.7ghz is 75% the speed of 5ghz

[cadaveca]

Originally Posted by karbon86

I think the fastest clock to date in a desktop single chip is an Intel @ 5ghz+. I'm not exactly sure if it's the best but it is the highest clock i've ever heard of. I wonder if that 3.7ghz FX-53 is a lot faster or not?

try 6ghz...

http://theinquirer.net/?article=18693 6009 mhz i think.

[brian770]

ya he got it posted at 6 but it was totaly unstable.
it was only stable at 5.3

[cadaveca]

Originally Posted by brian770

ya he got it posted at 6 but it was totaly unstable.
it was only stable at 5.3

yeah
5.3 ghz. phhhbbt!
does anyone at home really need that much power? (FAH'ers excluded, of course).

[GrahamGarside]

yes

4 years ago people were going on about breaking the ghz barrier and some were saying 'home users just don't need this' could yu go back to a sub ghz pc now? I know I couldn't my athlon 3400+ can still only recode a dvd-9 format disc to fit on dvd-r in around an hour, so even a pc 10X my current speed would still mean waiting 6mins and by then we'll be on hd-dvd and it will still probabally take an hour
we will always find a use for more power

[cadaveca]

VERY well put. Can't argue with that.
but really, i was not talknig about the time taken to perform things like that. With an hour, you can go, do something else, come back, and it's done. with 6mins, you're gonna sit there and wait, aren't ya? At least i would.
it's still performing the same task...just faster. the average home user doesn't need that much power...the least interference in daily life the better. John Doe would rather take a total of 2 minutes in front of the pc, rather than 6.

[GrahamGarside]

but while my pc's busy doing that theres no gaming for me, and some days I can have a dozen discs to do so thats my computer busy for the day
in many situations my pc is more than fast enough, when I'm dabbling in video editing it can handle mpeg2 stuff in real time and I've barely seen the cpu meter move in cubase
I'll admit pc's have reached a point where the cpu power is getting less important. For specialist needs their are specialist cards
I'll be much beter off with a dsp card for when my pc starts to hold me back in cubase for example
the average home user now would be better off loading up with ram hd space and getting a fast hd than cpu power, but I think that little part of us, the same part that likes the sentence '0 to 60 in...' can't resist a fast cpu