Hey Logan and Wendel,
First question; Do you think Super conducters would have a large and wanted impact on the technological field if they could be sustanded at room temptrature. Eg...on data transfer less power loss, faster chips etc.?
Next question; A few Inbox's ago....you talked about Bit coin mining, and as someone who loves computers but only 17....i havent the knowledge of everything on them. So i spent a few hours researching and didnt understand it completely. Would either one of you be able to explain to me what is its and why its done and what you need to do to mine it ?
Final question; How much better do you think the FX8350 will get after a few years because of the Jagaur chips the crappy consoles are going to be using. I know the difference wont be huge....but would it finally make it pull ahead of say the i5 2500k or 3770k, in terms of gaming and also in programs in general having a few years to become written to use all 8 cores.
Really love the show and favourate superhero (Marvel and DC) ??
IronPenguin96
Not Wendel or logan but: Offtopic: How the hell do i format this?
1. Superconductors wont have an immediate efect, but they will be very important in the future. Currently we've nothing that can reach speeds high enough to utilize superconductors, but the general sentiment is that electricity travels as fast as light in a perfect superconducter and at about 3/4 of that in modern computers.
Extremely high clock speeds are limited by this.
You cannot have faster clock speed than the distance it takes for information (electricity) to travel to it's location (Either RAM or on-processor cache) .
Currently that's about 45milimeters per cycle at 5 gigahertz, which is plenty. But add an order of magnitude or 2 and we have a problem - and that's where superconductors come in.
First though, you need something that wont combust at that speed. ( Persumably graphene, as it's carbon and has high thermal tolerance and , however graphene transistiors are still far-fetched, but can totally do clock speeds of like 50ghz. )
As far as bitcoin - it's a peer-to-peer software( user-to-user or computer-to-computer ) that puts 'coins' into seemingly random (or rather picked by the algorithm) solutions to hashes. It's a distributed computation network that's totally scalable. In a few words: If you hit the correct solution by matching a hash solution in a specific range of hashes ( a block ) you get a set number of bitcoins, which immidiately alerts the network that the block has been 'mined', and generates a new one. The hash complexity increases based on the number of blocks already mined and the rewards diminish based on how much time(or rather blocks have been mined) has passed.
The math behind this is what's really amazing. it's software that callibrates itself accordingly to the global network of peers but it also has a death timer. What makes it uncrackable is that it's all very complex and it being based upon the history of bitcoin aswell as all previous transactions. It's solutions to really complex problems that nobody needs to solve that keep the network running(confirming transactions and whanot) so everything is dynamically generated and sychronized peer-to-peer.Solving a hash correctly just means that you just submitted the only valid solution to such a complex problem, usually by luck.
I'm not entirely sure that's everything but that's my understanding.