Ideally, how fast should a CPU be?

>>58201842
fast

10^42 Hz

"Fast" isn't a very good way to describe CPU processing power. Depends on the task at hand as well considering what you wanted to do on the device.

I guess I would have to say as much power as you can pack into the device without it becoming redundant. Such as a processor in a TV on par with modern desktops would serve no purpose without it becoming a redundancy and waste of resources. It's more about the software limitations that can take power of the product.

>>58201842
[spoiler]bout tree fiddy[/spoiler]
infinitely fast, ideally, i guess
practically, fast enough to perform a given task

>>58201842
fasterthan the speed of sound

Faster than the fastest AMD memeprocessors.

...which pretty much every current Intel processor is.

>>58201842
about 120-140 km/h

It should be quick with its tasks, not necessarily fast. I'd say that a consumer level processor should be fast enough to complete in 24-48 hours most (=2 standard deviations) processing tasks

Fast enough to do what you need it to.

>>58201901
damnit monstah

>>58202223
kek

>>58202223

SUPER FAST

>>58201842
Isn't there some issue with 5ghz+ not feasible because of the speed of light, I have an MIT EE grad buddy who gets hammered and rants about tech stuff and he was telling me just the physical size of the motherboard is a factor in how fast a processor can get

>>58201842
Faster than the amount of time it takes for you to ejaculate after performing sexual intercourse in the missionary position.

>>58201842
very

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Bitchin' fast

>>58203192
No. You can get 5ghz with overclocking. It's meaningless to use ghz as a benchmark anyway since 5ghz on one architecture is different than another. The motherboard size is not a limiting factor for advancement. He is just BSing.

In all seriousness, could someone explain what's going on with clock speeds? They seemed to go up exponentially until around 3-4 GHz and stayed there.

>>58203797
power consumption and heat.

>>58201842
I think 8 khz is about average

Faster than AMD

Zimbabwe!

>>58203192
Overclocking world records

http://valid.x86.fr/records.html#js-freq_all

>>58201842
this is just shitposting.

>>58204053
Niger!

>>58201842
faster

>>58201842
For a full mouse and window based gui you barely need 1mhz.

>>58201842
speedy enough

5 maybe 7 fasts

>>58201842

4ghz

>>58201842
Fast enough that video/3D rendering and physics simulations are instantaneous.

It's disgusting how slow that shit still is even if you have the best cpu and gpu combo available.

>>58201842
Top of the line Intel Xeon E7 running at 5 GHz would probably be the fastest CPU.

>>58201842

niggerlicious

At least 600 Mhz, I can do pretty much anything comfortably with a single 600 Mhz thread, need at least 1Ghz for comfortable video decoding at 1080p, and 1.3 Ghz 4 threads for multitasking and light gaming.