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Posted by RedWood on Mon Dec 17th at 1:16am 2007

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? quoting Yak_Fighter
Have single core processors really reached the point where they can't be made any faster?

Yes. They pretty much have. They are talking ~45 nm feature sizes now, which is only ~90 atomic layers of silicon! Among other things, the power density in such dense architectures is approaching the point where things will start to melt.
*error?

Also, a while back they found out that they were sending data though so fast it actually turned the wires in the computer into transmitters. Causing interference. Then they pushed to expand bandwidth. I know what i said was vage but thats all i remember.


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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Dec 18th at 1:08am 2007

Pretty soon there will be expansion slots similar to ram slots for processors. You want more, you just plug in another and whammo you're all set.

/me envisions a generic processor slot much like the old days when you had one ram slot but an immense tower of ram modules plugged into it.





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Posted by Crono on Tue Dec 18th at 1:44am 2007

Welcome to 1965. They're called expansion slots and come in familiar form factors like PCI and AGP.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Dec 18th at 1:56am 2007

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Posted by Crono on Tue Dec 18th at 2:45am 2007

You heard me.


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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Dec 18th at 2:49am 2007

? quoting Crono
You heard me.

I heard. You didn't grasp. But alas, some things simply cannot be altered, even with time. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

Allow me to reiterate. Back in my old 486/33 you could put but one ram in at a time on the motherboard. However, someone made a generic card that you could put as many as 4 or 6 more, that plugged into the one ram port. (assuming your case allowed you to have a 4 inch card sticking out where your ram was supposed to be)

Anywho, you ruined my joke.

/me luv's you anyway





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Posted by Crono on Tue Dec 18th at 3:12am 2007

Okay, adding any sort of card to one of the expansion slots is adding another processor and increasing the processing ability of the machine. Like adding a graphics card, or a sound card.

Grasps it now?

Doing specifically what you're suggesting (which is an expansion card that allows you to add multiple SYSTEM processors) would be so incredibly slow and expensive it probably isn't worth it. Not to mention the added complexity and special support it would need. Mapping memory to a virtual address and splicing computing power over many processors (over virtual addresses) are two very different things.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.




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