Moore's Law

[[AK]Clay]

According to Morre's law, the speed of a new PC should double every 18 months. So how come the PC I bought 3 years ago was a 2.66 GHZ unit but a new Alienware that I'm looking at today is only 3.0GHz? Are they not supposed to be 10.4 GHz by now?

[Slaughter]

Murphys law only applied to a certain point, we've hit that wall now.

[[AK]Rocks]

Moore has moved forward , but at costs that you and I can't afford! Techonlogy is rapidly moving ahead too. 64 bits computing for home, Tetabyte of harddrive space at home and 2 to 4 GB of memory is starting to be common place (ok, for geeks) . NOt only to speak of the bandwidith available into our houses and verizion just dug up my front lawn to put fiber in. (Rick's ISP opening soon)

http://www.intel.com/technology/sili...slaw/index.htm

[[AK]Hylander]

Murphys law only applied to a certain point, we've hit that wall now.

Murphy's law and Moore's law are two different things.

[[AK]Hylander]

Moore has moved forward , but at costs that you and I can't afford! Techonlogy is rapidly moving ahead too. 64 bits computing for home, Tetabyte of harddrive space at home and 2 to 4 GB of memory is starting to be common place (ok, for geeks) . NOt only to speak of the bandwidith available into our houses and verizion just dug up my front lawn to put fiber in. (Rick's ISP opening soon)

http://www.intel.com/technology/sili...slaw/index.htm

I hope Verizon gets FIOS up and running soon here. I just upgraded with COVAD to 3.0/768, but I'm paying $90 a month for it. Granted, I have no limitations on it's use, static IP, etc. But that's still a bit expensive. But it keeps me off a cable connection, so I'm not complaining.

[[AK]Clay]

Moore has moved forward , but at costs that you and I can't afford! Techonlogy is rapidly moving ahead too. 64 bits computing for home, Tetabyte of harddrive space at home and 2 to 4 GB of memory is starting to be common place (ok, for geeks) . NOt only to speak of the bandwidith available into our houses and verizion just dug up my front lawn to put fiber in. (Rick's ISP opening soon)

http://www.intel.com/technology/sili...slaw/index.htm

Fair enough on the RAM and HD size, but with regards to processing, I'm confused. I paid $800 for a 2.6 Gz machine with an Nvidia TI 4200 3 years ago. Today I'm looking at $2500 for an Alienware unit with 3.0 Ghz processor. Something seems off.

[Slaughter]

Murphys Law, Moores Law... I knew what I meant at the time, I mean.. it was 4am afterall.

[[AK]Rocks]

Moores law deals with the number of transitors in a processor not the clock speed (IE ghz). Doubling the transitors doesn;t double the clock speed. AMD cpu's proves that augement by running at a lower clock speed and out performing its Intel counter part. I am not try to start a AMD vs Intel war, just pointing out that clock speed isnt the only thing that make a processor pump out work. Intel 3.2 ghz process vs AMD 3200+ (2.0 ghz clock speed) same performance.


See the intel Transitor chart in the first post

[Bassiswild]

For me I am an AMD fan they have never let me down and they keep performing well for me.

I think that the main reason why processor speeds have not gone up is because of the heat problem and how to disipate it efficently. A fan can only do so much. I think it is time to break out the Oil PC's. The site is in german but, if you enter the URL into google you can have it translate it. I think once they solve the heat issue we will see processor speeds go through the roof.

[[AK]Rocks]

You just made the point, you can increase your clock speed and no increase in transistors!

[Katanas Blade]

Personally (from my relatively un-informed standpoint..) I think it's high time to switch to a new tech, such as Quantum processors.

[[AK]Rocks]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chi...9249154,00.htm

update on the subject for Clay