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8Ghz cores do exist if you have enough money to hire someone to deal with the overclocking for you (or enough liquid nitrogen and time to do it yourself). I, o
by gpm 7y ago
8Ghz cores do exist if you have enough money to hire someone to deal with the overclocking for you (or enough liquid nitrogen and time to do it yourself).
I, on the other hand, care about the cost of my computers a bit more than that, not having infinite money. Which is why even if 8Ghz cores were commercially available I suspect I would still be buying 3 times as many 4Ghz ones.
- blattimwind 7y agoA Bulldozer FX barreling down the highway at over 8 GHz is actually still slower than any modern CPU at less than half the clock speed. The latter also doesn't require LN2 cooling and doesn't draw more than 100 W for a single core.