Can we pull out over 5Ghz yet?

[djnk-techyes]

A Random question really...
Does the technology exist yet for consumer buyers and builders to obtain a PC running anything over 5Ghz yet without overclocking? And do you think we will see one in a price range that wouldn't be too ridiculous to the average consumer buying or building one.... Do you think there will ever be a limit... Is Bio-organic computer systems a real attachment in our lifetime. Is Holographic memory capabilities something that's being researched on or even developed on...Will SSD Drives be a thing of the past?

Tell me your thoughts!

 

[Mrthorp]

we will see 5ghx cpu's non - OC in 2 years or less.. its just a matter of time.

 

[hunter315]

I highly doubt we will ever see a processor at 5GHz stock, the power consumption would be much too high, and the transistors needed for those speeds would be very expensive. Notice how clock speed has stayed fairly flat over the past several years? Yet processors ended up getting significantly faster. You are better off with a processor that can get a lot more done per clock cycle at 3GHz than one that can do far less but is running at 5GHz. The 3GHz one will also have lower power consumption as power used scales linearly with frequency.

Intel expected netburst based CPUs to be able to get up to really high clock frequencies, and they could but the power consumed was obscene so they werent marketable as they would have required exotic cooling methods.

 

[beenthere]

Intel was predicting 6 Ghz. PIII's that never happend and 10 Ghz. Piss4's that never happened even though they were flame throwing CPUs. So no at the moment 5 Ghz. CPUs are not likely without OC'ing and liquid nitrogen cooling.

 

[BaronMatrix]

A Random question really...
Does the technology exist yet for consumer buyers and builders to obtain a PC running anything over 5Ghz yet without overclocking? And do you think we will see one in a price range that wouldn't be too ridiculous to the average consumer buying or building one.... Do you think there will ever be a limit... Is Bio-organic computer systems a real attachment in our lifetime. Is Holographic memory capabilities something that's being researched on or even developed on...Will SSD Drives be a thing of the past?

Tell me your thoughts!

Actually there is a ~5GHz chip. It's just not x86. The Power6 is 4.7GHz. IBM was supposedly going to release a 5GHz but they went with more cores in Power7.