i7 hits 5.5GHz

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its suprising how far cpus have come without actually increasing the core speeds. i remember when the P4 3.0ghz chips came out 4-5 years ago

GRim

 

In general clock speed isn't a very good method of measuring CPU speed in a way its even misleading (esp between CPU architectures). There's a lot of research going back to asynchronous logic which doesn't have a clock, what would intel do .. lol.

Same with MIP's which is also not comparable between CPU architectures.

i7 certainly is brilliant, out of my price range at the moment

Multicore hyperthreading

 

I heard this the other day, although it isn't suprising to me when I have read people getting 4.5GHz with my cpu (e8400). I have hit 4GHz with no problem what so ever and ran a 9 hour stress test today, I reckon if I was brave enough I could probably hit 4.2 easy but I am not gonna bother.

I was reading about those i7s the other day, very impressive even the slowest model is quick

 

amd are trying to counter with the their new am3 socket

GRim

 

Crazy, don't think it'll happen unless it cost three fifty or £3.50

 

you mean tree fiddy ?

GRim

 

yeah, lol

 

tbh if it's good it'll sell, if it's not good it'll need to be cheap

GRim

 

Thats means tree fiddy

 

it might be good for all you know

GRim

 

I hope they (AMD) do make a chip that catches up with Intels success but I think I have the same odds of winning the lottery and finding Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Ellison and Ashley Judd in my bed at the same time

 

well your chances are somewhere between possible and impossible so you never know

GRim

 

Id keep it at 4GHz if i were you, we tested the E8500 using a couple of benchmark stress tests which is stable enough for us to sell to customers (times have ranged from 24 hours to a long weekend), we have clocked them higher but there just not stable enough over longer periods of time and using 100% CPU usage...