The system mother board has a clock speed; two to three-times this is usually the memory speed, and four-times this is most always the Front Side Bus (FSB) speed. Think of an 18-speed bicycle. The lower the gear ratio the steeper the hill you can pedle up. For the CPU it is the higher the CPU Core speed the more computer instructions you can process. The point is... how many instructions/how steep is the hill you have to deal with; will determine how important getting that next CPU core multiple of the base clock speed. CPU core speed multiples is more like the bike going down-hill, sometimes you just can't peddle fast enough to keep your feet on the peddles. Most of us don't really have the data cruching need for that extra $100 or $300 for those fractions of a second we will save going from a core multiple of 9 to 10 or 11 times the board frequency; which is also the ratio of speed boost, 10:11 is not much of an improvement. Most important is getting the computer with the features you need. When it costs a $100 more for the next CPU core multiple and your only speending $100 on a video board or only getting 512 MB of memory... get the $200 video board or get the 2 GB of the fastest memory... for your system mother board!
When measuring speed, one must be careful about what you are measuring. In most cases, what you are interested in is the amount of work that a given CPU can accomplish in a fixed amount of time.
This can vary widely by CPU, and it primarily dependent on six things:
The procesor - is the 'brain' of the computer. It allows each separate component to 'talk' to each other - to enable the computer to do the tasks the user has asked it to do. The faster the processor's speed - the greater the number of instructions it can perform per second.
The speed of a CPU depends on the number of core processors and the speed at which these run ( generally measured in GHz). The higher the speed, and the more cores, the faster it will go.
by the computer screen and if it cuts off in is not working
The processor speed determines how fast a program runs. The more clockspeed a CPU has the faster it reads the instructions.
All data used by a computer is going through the CPU. the larger the cache size and the higher the clock speed, the faster your PC will operate.
ENIAC processor
Th clock speed is the processor speed. It is simply the amout of operations the processor can do per second. However if the processor has multiple cores, it will be as fast as number of cores * clock speed. Note that the processor speed is not the overall computer speed.
processor or CPU
speed of a processor is measured by CMU(Clock Multiplier Unit). Formula:(speed of processor in Hz)/(FSB of processor)= CMU
The only way to increase the processor speed is by overclocking. Through overclocking, you can increase the overall speed of the processor.
the technology that disappears is called pervasive computing
No. It represents the clock speed of the processor. The clock speed is usually misinterpreted by many as the power of the processor, but the physical design of the processor has far more to do with the processors throughput than the clock speed itself.
One limitation of a 16 bit processor, compared to a 64 bit processor, is computing speed. A 16 bit process can process 2 bytes (8 bits = 1 byte) of information per clock cycle. While a 64 bit processor can process 8 bytes of information per clock cycle, making the 64 bit processor four times faster than a 16 bit processor.
Clock speed measures the speed and it's measured in megahertz.
The processor (obviously)
processor speed does not matter.
MMX - Multimedia Extensions