Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
apoppin ~
my view on that is kinda skewed due to the chips ive owned during the last year.
1 year ago ~ i had a 2.53b that ran P95 @ 3.4ghz on def vcore.
6 months ago ~ i had a 2.4b that ran P95 @ 3.4ghz on def vcore.
yesterday ~ i got my 1st chip that can run P95 @ 3.5ghz on def vcore.
so my response would have to be ~ only 100mhz a year.
like someone pointed out, the recent boost is due to the release of the 3.4ghz chip.
Wasn't the 3.4c
supposed to be the last of the Northwoods? . . . seriously, i doubt it due to AMD competition . . . I think there is a LOT left in that .13 micron process (that won't hopefully be downgraded into another castrated Celeron that'll go into Intel's (new) low(er) end.
Look at the last of the PIIIs; they could BARELY make 1+ Ghz and the last steppings O/C 20% . . . same with the Tualatins - barely made their rated speed but now routinely O/C 25%.
My GUESS is that we shall ALL see a lot of cheap Northwood UPgrades - next year - hitting ~4 Ghz . . . or higher
. . . but then I have been wrong before (we'll see).
EDIT: I seriously doubt that YOU are a good example - you've always handpicked CPUs and/or been extremely lucky with your O/Cs - the ones you got were
exceptional for their "day".