What is the need for all these progress CPUs'

[calahan]

What is the point of having a desktop with 5Ghz 8-core processor, 64 Gb ram, ? I don't see a purpose for creating computers with such absurd parameters. Where is it going to end, and who is all this progress for?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Ehh, troll harder?

Or are you aware that some people use their PCs for more than facebook? Engineering software, distributed computing, content creation?

Edit: You ever seen a Pixar / Disney movie? Toy Story? Up? Cars? Faster, bigger computers, let them release those movies in a few short years, rather than take a decade of computer power for just one movie.

 

[Zodiark1593]

3d rendering. Gaming. Music. Autocad. Etc. Most regular consumers have no need though I'm not a regular consumer so I could care less.

If I had the cash, I'd be rolling at least a 36 core server myself. 3d rendering eats anything you throw at it.

 

[calahan]

3d rendering. Gaming. Music. Autocad. Etc. Most regular consumers have no need though I'm not a regular consumer so I could care less.

If I had the cash, I'd be rolling at least a 36 core server myself. 3d rendering eats anything you throw at it.

In your case its completely understood. I don't see a large percentage of users working with 3D rendering or Autocad?

 

[TheELF]

In your case its completely understood. I don't see a large percentage of users working with 3D rendering or Autocad?

We have to lay the ground work ,build the strong computer network to allow the raise of skynet.

 

[sm625]

My company's 3D CAD software and pcb design software both still use one core for pretty much everything. Well, they supposedly use DirectX too but I'm not sure how much.

 

[Rakehellion]

In your case its completely understood. I don't see a large percentage of users working with 3D rendering or Autocad?

A large percentage of users can't afford a $10000 computer either so it works out.

 

[MrTeal]

My company's 3D CAD software and pcb design software both still use one core for pretty much everything. Well, they supposedly use DirectX too but I'm not sure how much.

This actually caused issues for me in the past on my 2500k with Altium. Even though the program would peg one core at 100% utilization, the system wouldn't increase clock speed up to the maximum multiplier leaving the CPU running at 2.x Ghz intead of 4.2. I had to make up a power profile just for Altium with a 100% speed minimum just to get acceptable performance.

 

[Phynaz]

I want Facebook to scroll really, really fast.

 

[frozentundra123456]

OP, do you work for Intel planning their cpus? Nobody needs more than 4 cores. Dont want to make the IPC gains too much either.

 

[Mr Evil]

If you can't see the purpose then you lack imagination. The number of possible applications for faster CPUs is limitless, and includes things that no one alive today has even dreamed of yet.

If you want an example of something that would require more CPU power and be useful for normal consumers, then consider holography; real-time generation of holograms at useable resolutions requires massively more computing power than a standard PC has today.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Research Science for one

 

[crashtech]

Does the OP know that they still make dual cores clocked below 3.0 GHz for those that don't need all that absurdly fast speed?

 

[ClockHound]

Research Science for one

Speaking (without being asked) for all of us here, we'd prefer if you researched Science not just for one, but for all of us. And released your findings in a single exec-style tweet we can re-tweet on our 18 core smartphones. This would allow us to the extra time to troll other boards with ill-considered tautologies.

 

[ninaholic37]

What is the point of having a desktop with 5Ghz 8-core processor, 64 Gb ram, ? I don't see a purpose for creating computers with such absurd parameters. Where is it going to end, and who is all this progress for?

You're too late, the FX-9590 thread died like a year ago, and it may be the only affordable 8-core 5GHz CPU we'll see for many years/decades.

But I agree, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.

 

[TheELF]

If you want an example of something that would require more CPU power and be useful for normal consumers, then consider holography; real-time generation of holograms at useable resolutions requires massively more computing power than a standard PC has today.

A holograph is nothing other than a 3d world displayed in a different way,it needs nothing more than your typical (well nowadays typical)3d game.

 

[Mr Evil]

A holograph is nothing other than a 3d world displayed in a different way,it needs nothing more than your typical (well nowadays typical)3d game.

In principle it's easy, but it requires rendering the scene from every possible point of view all at the same time to generate the light field. That's an awful lot of data.

 

[calahan]

If you can't see the purpose then you lack imagination. The number of possible applications for faster CPUs is limitless, and includes things that no one alive today has even dreamed of yet.

If you want an example of something that would require more CPU power and be useful for normal consumers, then consider holography; real-time generation of holograms at useable resolutions requires massively more computing power than a standard PC has today.

I don't know more useless thing then holography .... just like new Iphone 6, 7, 8 or 9 ..... its like fanatic religion.

 

[PliotronX]

Because I don't want to even see a progress bar in between clicking start and 'finished' on intensive tasks :ninja:

 

[ioni]

I don't know more useless thing then holography .... just like new Iphone 6, 7, 8 or 9 ..... its like fanatic religion.

How about fire? Look at all the animals in the world doing fine without it. Totally unnecessary.

 

[Boze]

What is the point of having a desktop with 5Ghz 8-core processor, 64 Gb ram, ? I don't see a purpose for creating computers with such absurd parameters. Where is it going to end, and who is all this progress for?

Its mostly so I can get my video encoding done in a reasonable time frame and then upload it to YouTube. Haste makes increased Likes, Subscribes, and View counts.

The longer I have to wait for encoding, the more current events pass me by.

Also, all that power gets put to use for Folding@Home when I'm not actively working on my PC.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Because I don't want to even see a progress bar in between clicking start and 'finished' on intensive tasks :ninja:

Definitely agree.

4K video editing comes to mind. I don't even want to think about 8K requires... :whiste:

Does the OP know that they still make dual cores clocked below 3.0 GHz for those that don't need all that absurdly fast speed?

As of Skylake, the only desktop dual cores below 3.0GHz are a couple of Celerons. Quite impressive really... :awe:

 

[calahan]

OP, do you work for Intel planning their cpus? Nobody needs more than 4 cores. Dont want to make the IPC gains too much either.

Thanks for your input. I will let my Intel boss know.

 

[calahan]

Because I don't want to even see a progress bar in between clicking start and 'finished' on intensive tasks :ninja:

You never think about how we spent unproportionally resources of the Earth for such small and unnecessary changes on your system perfomance?

 

[tential]

You never think about how we spent unproportionally resources of the Earth for such small and unnecessary changes on your system perfomance?

Well actually when cpu is faster and consumes less power (like what Intel has attempted to do each gen) it consumes less of the earth's resources....