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| Thargok:
We had 3 Ghz machines in 2003. The Mhz race is over and companies are finally trying to build stable energy efficent products instead of space heaters in a PC case. I say give it 10 years. Remember 20 years ago it was predicted that 100 Mhz was as fast as a CPU could possibly run. |
| deadsoulz:
Yeah for mame to start seeing any gain in speed anytime soon, it would need to start taking advantage of multiple cpu's. 4ghz will probably be the largest we see in quite a while. And I don't see them adding multithread support, because well they don't care that you can't play Gauntlet legends at a playable speed. There goal is just to make it run. --Deadsoulz |
| Fat_Trucker:
Yup, I saw a demo a while back where some University types were seeing how fast they could really go. I think they were using one of the balls out pentiums and set up a liquid nitrogen cooling system (this thing actually ended up looking like a giant snowball) and they still only clocked to just under 5Ghz before it all went pear shaped. |
| thebrownshow:
I think in a recent Maximum PC issue, the were able to get close to 4Ghz with the new off-the-shelf phase-change cooling. |
| Havok:
I read in some mag someone used liquid cooling and got a clock speed of 5 GHz reliably. I've got to track down my chd disks and load this up. I have an AMD 3300+ which I haven't had any problems yet. I'll keep you posted... |
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