Why are we still using CPUs instead of GPUs?

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Chapters
00:00 Question
00:39 Accepted answer (Score 409)
05:54 Answer 2 (Score 261)
08:33 Answer 3 (Score 77)
09:57 Answer 4 (Score 41)
10:50 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/308771/w...

Accepted answer links:
[GPGPU]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU
[Turing complete]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_comp...
[stream processing]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_proc...
[parallel computing]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_co...
[NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputers]: http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal-su...
[GPU clients]: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Down...
[FAQs]: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ
[Accelerated Processing Unit (APU)]: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technolog...
[a future where the CPU and GPU are one, capable of seamlessly working together on the same task]: http://developer.amd.com/resources/heter.../

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