Talk:Clock rate

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[edit] Moore's Law

I am revising the section on Moore's Law, as it relates to transistor count, not clock speed. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 15:39:21, 2005-08-31 (UTC)

[edit] Bleh

Yick... This article is another microelectronic PC-centric mess. Anyone who wants to help improve it would be much appreciated... If not I'll fix this up shortly after I finish working on the Central processing unit article. -- uberpenguin 16:34, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Processing power

Why this redirects here? Processing power has different meaning. kuszi 19:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC).

Yeah, a high clock rate does not necessarily mean power. How should the page on processing power be if it would no longer redirect here? Geekosaurus 23:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger

It does seem to me that this should be part of clock signal, as it is a property of something with clock signals (if this makes any sense). Geekosaurus 23:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] speed of light as the upper limit

Someone should mention how the speed of light ensure we'll never have Petahertz chips. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlj7 (talk • contribs)

Why is that so?? Realg187 21:42, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Nothing goes faster than c. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 22:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Not necessarily. It's just that it's impossible (with current theory) to send data faster than the speed of light due to special relativity. Anyway, that's pedantic for the purposes of this article. -- mattb @ 2006-12-14T00:07Z
Assuming a maximum signal path of 1 millimetre, the maximum clock rate assuming c as the propagation rate (which is idealistic) is about 300 GHz. If you wanted to be really pedantic, the limit for any electronic clock rate is limited by the Compton wavelength of the electron to about 123 exahertz. It gets much worse if you try more than one electron at once. :P --AlexWCovington (talk) 06:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rate

Its dumb how they dont say the clock rates, consumers have the right to know!!! I have a program that tells it very accuatly like to 3 deciamal places ex, instead of 232 or 233 it'll say 232.9!! Realg187 21:42, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

What are you talking about? Modern consumer microprocessors? If so, the rate is available, just no longer in the name. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 22:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What limits a chip's clock rate

I came here looking to find out what limits a chips clock rate, but it's not here. I want to know what problems too high a clock rate causes and why it causes those problems.

[edit] Digital logic

The clock rate is the fundamental rate in cycles per second (measured in hertz) at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transferring a value from one processor register to another. Different chips on the motherboard may have different clock rates. Usually when referring to a computer, the term "clock rate" is used to refer to the speed of the CPU."

I'm pretty sure clock rate applies to any digital logic, not just computers. But I'm not bold enough to change it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.130.27.40 (talk) 01:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] limits to clock rate

This section is very poorly written, and also inaccurate. As I understand it, overclocking does not involve physically replacing anything, as the section suggests. I considered fixing the grammar and wording, but didn't want to risk introducing inaccuracies, since I really don't know all that much about overclocking. Would someone knowledgeable please look at this section? 192.5.109.49 (talk) 21:57, 18 March 2008 (UTC)