Im guessing your multiplier would be around 19x or so, you could check this by entering your BIOS at startup and checking in there.

Ususally to enter the BIOS you hit one of the following:

-Esc

-F2

-F10

-F12

-Delete

One of these usually enters the setup.

The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the chip that actually performs the calculations that drive a computer. The motherboard is the board on which the CPU sits, and has the bus on which data is passed to the various input and output sources. Motherboards also usually contain slots for accessory cards (sometimes called daughterboards) such as a video card or network card.

The motherboard would be considered the nervous system, arteries and internal organs of a computer. The Central Processing Unit (CPU) would be considered the brain of a computer.

Log2 260 is 8.022, so it would seem that 9 bits are required to handle 260 instructions. In practice, however, the opcode is a multiple of 8 bits, so most instructions are 8 bits, with a few being 16 bits.

This processor will play a big part in playing top end games yes but you will need a good graphics card also.

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After taking apart the laptop (see instructions at

http://www.takeitapart.net/forum/index.php/topic,5.0.html) I found there is a CMOS battery under the keyboard, but it is soldered to the motherboard. This doesn't make it useful as a reset. I did not find a jumper or any other reset switch internal to the laptop. My research seems to suggest that holding the power button for 30 seconds is supposed to reset the CMOS. Unfortunately, that did not help in my case, but may for yours.

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Sorry, but no. It doesn't mater how many cores it has, a 1.6 is still a 1.6.

This can be measured in a lot of ways. Typical for some categories listed below:

Typical home-end clock frequency is 3.0-3.6 GHz without any kind of overclocking.

Typical MiPS is averaging nearly 100,000 (This is getting phenominal!)

Processors are approaching the TFLOP level on the home-end as well.

IPC is 30~ for AMD and 50~ for Intel.

The last 3 are far more important in determining a processor's speed than the clock frequency.

Yes. This motherboard supports the AMD Athlon 64 X2. I believe the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ is the fastest processor this board will support.

LGA 775 processors are supported by LGS 775 sockets. Most, if not all, Intel processors are LGA 775, and almost no, if any, AMD processors are LGA 775. At www.newegg.com look up your processor and check the specifications to see what socket type it is.

Yes, an AMD fx 6300 fits into a ASUS m5a97 r2. For more information check out tomshardware.com/answers/id-1783753/amd-fx6300-work-motherboard-asus-m5a97.html

There aren't any real disadvantages to 64-bit processors. When running a 64-bit operating system, running a 16-bit application requires a context switch from 64-bit to 32-bit, from 32-bit down to 16-bit, and back to 32-bit and 64-bit. This creates a large performance penalty so in practice most 64-bit operating systems will not allow you to run 16-bit applications. This is unlikely to be a problem for most users, though.

There is one significant disadvantage of 64-bit processors when compared to 32-bit processors: minimum operation size for calculations. A 64-bit processor must do all integer calculations using a 64-bit wide register (that is, all integers must be represented as 64 bits in size). A 32-bit processor does all integer calculations in 32-bit sizes. While performing the actual calculation (e.g. adding two numbers) is neither faster nor slower under 64 vs 32 bit systems, the requirement to pull full 64-bit chunks from memory to do any calculation results in more memory "pressure" than a 32-bit processor.

The result of this is that for a system which does mostly smaller integer calculations (i.e integers which are 231 or small in size), a 32-bit system will have about HALF the memory bandwidth requirement of a 64-bit system. A memory latency is the the dominating factor in modern CPU performance (i.e. the time to get data from memory is far greater than the time to perform a calculation on that data), a 32-bit processor will perform noticeably faster doing such smaller calculations than a 64-bit processor.

A related disadvantage of a 64-bit CPU vs a 32-bit CPU is that the larger operational unit (word) size means that all pathways, registers, and memory units attached to a 64-bit CPU have to be about double the size as required in a 32-bit CPU. This results in about a 40% larger number of transistors required to implement a (roughly) equivalent 64-bit processor vs a 32-bit processor. This does not translate into a 40% higher cost, but does significantly increase production costs; it also significantly increases the thermal profile of the processor (i.e the larger number of transistors requires more power and produces more heat).

An 18-core Xeon Haswell-E5 has 5,560,000,000 transistors.

The instruction decoder is the part of the CPU that converts the bits stored in the instruction register into control signals need to control other parts of the processor. In CPUs that use microcode, the decoder converts microinstructions into the control signals.

comoscow would like to know more about the evolution of computer system because it don'st really sound very clear to me.

Intel

L1 and L2; Many years ago L1 was the only cache memory integrated into the CPU (processor) and L2 had to be added to the motherboard. Currently (as of year 2013), CPUs implement both L1 and L2 cache in the casing of the processor. Thus, processors (CPUs) ship with amounts of L2 cache independent for each processor core.

CPu/central processing unit ALU/'arithmetic and logical unit Memory Processor i/o devices