Microprocessors

Upgrading your CPU can have a huge impact, or none at all. If your CPU is causing a bottleneck in your system, due to other components being more efficient / powerful / capable of doing whatever tasks you are demanding of it, then an upgraded CPU could greatly increase the speed of your system.

However, if your CPU is more efficient / powerful / capable than other pieces of hardware (such as your GPU, harddrive, or ram), then upgrading your CPU may have little effect at all.

If you are having issues with your computer being too "slow", as I suspect you may be, then make sure that your CPU is actually the problem. When your computer is running slowly, check to see how much of your CPU is actually being used. If it is requiring 80-100% of it's capacity, then a CPU upgrade may be a good idea. If it is not, then look at your other components, and see how they are performing.

That said, the first step should always be to check for viruses, clean up your system, defrag (if you have a HDD...do NOT defrag a solid state drive), remove unnecessary programs, etc.

The function of the CPU (Centeral Processing Unit) is to perform operations which make your computer run. At one point or another, EVERY bit (8 bits = 1 byte) of data goes through the CPU and is processed in some way.

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"Classic" Pentiums were available with clock speeds of 60, 66, 75, 90, 100, 120, 133, 150, 166, and 200 Mhz. Pentiums with MMX extensions were available in 120, 133, 150, 166, 200, 233, 266, and 300 MHz.

A data bus is bidirectional because the processor needs it to both read and write. Also, in the case of the 4004, the data bus was tri-multiplexed with the 12 bit address bus and the 8 bit opcode bus.

No, the processor that you put on the motherboard has to have the same socket as the motherboard. The socket number will be right on the the part that the processor snaps onto. You also have to check the motherboard manual to see if it is compatible with the new processor speed ( example: 1.3ghz)

Texas Instruments makes a lot of digital signal processors, which are specialized microprocessors used in communications, video and audio applications. In many cases, they integrate several signal-processing cores, as well as ARM cores used as controllers, and various amounts of memory, on a single chip.

Because that's how Intel designed it.

The 8085 is an 8-bit computer operating on a 16-bit address space.

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Don't touch it exessively

don't let it get too hot

don't squash it don't pour acid on it

don't pour ketchup on it

don't pour anything on it

don't throw it into the sea

don't throw it off a building

don't try to eat it

don't let it overheat

use a heatsink

use a fan

use heat conducting paste

only use it in a slot it fits in

only use it in a computer

don't electrocute it

don't use it as a projectile

don't sue me because i missed something

don't run it over with a bus

don't run it over with a car

don't run it over with a fat person

don't run it over with a thin person

don't step on it

don't add exess pressure to it

don't try to discect it

don't try and plug it into yourself

don't feed it

don't use it as a weapon

don't put in someone's food

don't drop it in a puddle

don't attack it

don't try to help it do it's job with gunpowder

don't leave it near explosives

DO just leave it in the computer and let it do it's job

The 3 main ones are Input, Output, and Processor. There are more, but the play little role.

Processor cache is intermediate memory between the processor itself and main memory (RAM).

Because processors can read data so much faster than main memory, the speed of a processor would essentially be limited to the speed of RAM if we couldn't find a way to increase the efficiency of accessing data in main memory. Caches, which have a much lower access time than RAM, help to mitigate this problem.

Caches work on the principle of spacial locality. That is to say, they use the idea that if you access a location in main memory, then it is highly likely that the next memory location you want to access is very close to where you are. When you access main memory, the cache will actually pull in a "chunk" of data (often called a "cache line") in the hope that the next time you try to access data it will already be in the cache.

Typically there are two levels of cache (though with the increasing popularity of multi-core processors, three levels of cache are becoming more and more necessary).

The first level of cache (L1 cache) is what is directly accessed by the processor and is therefore the fastest (and most expensive) cache. L1 cache is usually split into two parts: data cache and instruction cache. The instruction cache holds the instructions of running programs that the processor needs to execute. The data cache holds the data being used by current instructions.

The second level of cache (L2 cache) is where the L1 cache pulls in information from. L2 cache is slower than L1 cache, but is more affordable and can be much larger than L1. With the exception of L3 caches mentioned above, this is the cache which pulls information in from main memory.

Sometimes. If a processor excels in a very large range of tests, or bests another in a very large range of tests, it is more than likely a superior real-world processor. There are cases of CPU and GPU tests where a vendor will do something shady like incorporate physical design or software that will fabricate results and therefore score the processor higher than it should be. Intel and nVidia (Bless their beautiful hardware) are both guilty of doing this at least once.

In current times, the larger the sample of tests, the more accurate your comparison can be.

So programs written for the older processor can be used on the new one without modification.

Most computers have multiple processors, for example, a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a central processing unit (CPU). Among systems with multiple CPU, it is common to use multiple of the same CPU.

The choice to use multiple of the same processors is just a convenience which simplifies hardware and software design, but nothing in theory prevents the construction of a computer with multiple different CPU.

This would probably not economically appealing for standard computing needs like a typical PC, but specialist computers could feature specialized CPU for different tasks. Some of this specialization is already present in some modern designs; for example, the Tegra T30 features four identical processing cores, plus a fifth one that is optimized for very low power consumption. When the unit is idle or neat idle, the four powerful cores are suspended to prolong battery life.

A CPU contains a control unit and an arithmetic/logic unit

some good things to do are check your temporary internet files in Internet Explorer, if that is your browser, and make sure they are deleted. Also emptying your recycle bin frequently and deleting any old programs or files that you don't need. It's also good to have a pop-up blocker because those often slow down the internet speed of a computer.

without the CPU a computer would not be able to process any data. a CPU is the logical part of the computer which actually performs the calculation which is actually done in the ALU (arithmetic logic unit) part of the processor.

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Microprocessors have internal data pathways and internal registers with a fixed number of bits. An 32 bit processor will process 32 bit words, a 64 bit processor will process 64 bit words. The internal registers are sized to accommodate the word length with a single transfer. Generally, the more bits a processor can handle, the faster it can run. Smaller microprocessors might only process only 8 bits or less.

A word length is the data width that can be hold by the microprocessor. The word length is represented in bits.

word length is the instruction and other data handled by computers is in the forms of words.

a word is a group of bits.

With todays standards a 1GHz processor is something you wouldn't even find being sold in todays lowest end PCs. 1Ghz was acceptable back when people were mainly using 98 and XP, XP being one of the new OS's in the day. So no, while a 1GHz processor had its day, it is not currently considered 'good' within information technology any longer.

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Elements that affect the CPU's performance include clock speed, which measures how many cycles per second the CPU can execute; the number of cores, as multiple cores can handle more tasks simultaneously; and cache size, which allows for quicker access to frequently used data. Additionally, factors such as thermal management, architecture efficiency, and the type of workload being processed can also play significant roles in overall performance.