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farmdve t1_j5ga98j wrote

Reply to comment by HaikuBotStalksMe in Radxa Rock5 Model A is a credit card-sized single-board PC with RK3588S and up to 16GB RAM (starting at $99) by giuliomagnifico

2.66Ghz. Don't ask me how I remember this from 2006.

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justdrowsin t1_j5gf2xk wrote

Oh yeah? I remember springing for the math co-processor on my 486 when I upgraded from my 386. Doom worked so damn good after that.

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alternate_ending t1_j5gs352 wrote

flips the turbo switch and boots up DOS

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justdrowsin t1_j5gzoep wrote

Why would I flip up the turbo switch? It makes all my games mess up and run too fast.

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Purpoisely_Anoying_U t1_j5geyvh wrote

I get the reasoning behind it, but it's still wild we hit 1ghz in around 2000, then 2ghz just a few years later and have pretty much stayed there since for practically everything.

I remember the mhz/ghz wars just ramping up like Moore's law and then it suddenly stopped.

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Comfortable_History8 t1_j5gj9ni wrote

Multi-core multi-thread wars started up about the time the GHz wars ended along with a huge amount of processing for gaming being offloaded to dedicated GPU’s

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Purpoisely_Anoying_U t1_j5gk66u wrote

If you asked me back in 2000 seeing the movement from 20mhz to 100mhz to 1ghz in relatively short time I'd figure we'd be at 15ghz by now and 128gb memory

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Emu1981 t1_j5kk4mx wrote

>then 2ghz just a few years later and have pretty much stayed there since for practically everything.

*looks at the base speed of 3.6GHz and max boost of 5GHz at stock of his 12700k*.

The wall CPUs hit in terms of frequency was 5GHz-6GHz. Silicon just doesn't like going past those clock speeds without pulling a ton of power and producing a butt load of heat.

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impreprex t1_j5glubv wrote

Hey, does anyone remember the 667mhz PCs? Weren't they supposed to be 666mhz - going along with the numbering convention they used (multiples of 16)?

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