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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Example: In 1995 I got my first computer, a Pentium 100. It consumed 10.1W of power, or 10MHz per Watt. More recently a quad core i7 consumes 55W, or about 145MHz per Watt. That represents a 15x increase in efficiency! How the heck did we still end up increasing power consumption by 5x?
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This made me lol, MHz does not represent how many calculations it's doing. The difference is more like x 4 times the cores x 2 times the instructions per clock, not counting the more advanced instructions that the i7 has. But anyways...
I agree, back then the cars that got better fuel economy did so because they sucked.
hatman, there are better ways of attacking part load efficiency than warm air intake, which is very crude. Many new engines are coming with cooled EGR, for example. Most mods ecomodders do are probably considered unacceptable for more reasons than just "people won't like them". Longer gears that require downshifting piss people off already.