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CPU Speed is meshed in Gigahertz. For example: Abbreviation for gigahertz. One GHz represents 1 billion cycles per second. The speed of microprocessors, called the clock speed, often is measured in gigahertz. For example, a microprocessor that runs at 200 GHz executes 200 billion cycles per second.
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∙ 11y agoThe clock speed of a processor typically is not measured; rather it is set by the hardware on the motherboard that holds it. It is possible to measure the processor speed by having a routine that takes a specific number of machine cycles to execute, running that routine repeatedly for a fixed length of time (measured by the real-time controller chip on the motherboard) and counting how many times it completes. From that, you can determine the number of machine cycles per unit time, and this translates very simply into a number of machine cycles per second. This is usually expressed in terms of hertz, rather than cycles, a practice that dates back to the days when a machine cycle occurred every time the system clock ticked, so the system clock speed in hertz was the processor speed. Modern chips have speeds measured in gigahertz (GHz), thousands of millions of machine cycles per second.
Some processors take the clock provided to them by a clock source on the board and multiply the speed internally to generate a faster internal clock speed, while others, as indicated above use the board's clock directly.
As a hardware guy, I'd use an oscilloscope to look at the clock signal and most digital oscilloscopes have a frequency function built in. Oscilloscopes can also "zoom in" on a single period and measure the frequency that way (frequency = 1 / period). These are good for fairly accurate approximations of the clock frequency. Other possibilities are using a precision digital frequency counter which counts the number of pulses over a longer period of time (several seconds), then averages the number of pulses over that period of time.
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∙ 14y agoClock speed is usually measured in MHz (megahertz, or millions of pulses per second) or GHz (gigahertz, or billions of pulses per second).
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∙ 14y agoClock speed is usually measured in Gigahertz. The standard now days is around 3.
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∙ 10y agowhat unit is typically used to measure the speed of a computer clock
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∙ 15y agoradians/second
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∙ 10y agomega hertz
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237 hp is what in mph?
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Does the speed and or quality of your ram affect how much you can overclock a computers processor?
Speed and quality (brand). PS: memory parameters are not directly connected to overclocking capabilities of CPU. Usually CPU itself is the major factor. Meaning that even if you have the best memory on the market but your CPU is not capable of overclocking you do get good results. And opposite if you have average quality memory but good CPU you can get very good results. There is one exception. When you overclock both CPU and memory both should be with a right speed and good brand.
