How can the installation of RAM affect the clock speed of the processor?

Answer 1

It doesn't; the clock speed of your RAM is governed by your Front Side Bus clock frequency.

With more RAM installed your PC will run faster, but the CPU clock speed is not responsible for this.

Actually,installing RAM would never effect the processor speed .AS there is a clock generator(eg:8284-A which was being used in the 8086 processor long back) which determines the clock of of the processor which in term is responsible for the speed of the processor.for eg:Every read or write operation takes 4 clock cycle for instance & if ur processor's clock speed is 1 mega hZ frequency i.e a clock pulse is of 1 micro seconds i.e ur write operation will take 4 micro sec & suppose my processors's clock speed is 2 mega hZ frequency i.e a clock pulse is of 0.5 micro seconds i.e my write operation will take only 2 micro second.

now what actually RAm is? it is just a temporary memmory provided to the prcessor for communication. processor hardly communicates with the hard disk. whatever data is required by processor it is first transfered to the RAm first and processor retrives it from there.so if u have larger RAm large data can be stored in it & would not want it regularly from the hard disk. there r a lot of other things involved like the type of architecture and cache memmory.however ,i hope i would have answered to this question.

BY:- KALLAT VINAY(mumbai-vasai computer engineer).