COMPUTER SUPPORT Tips from the Gonzales Louisiana
Computer Pro – Does CPU Speed Still Matter?
If you’ve been using computers long enough, you remember when it was very important
how fast your CPU clock speed was.
Indeed, the early Intel CPUs were graded...
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COMPUTER SUPPORT Tips from the Gonzales Louisiana
Computer Pro – Does CPU Speed Still Matter?
If you’ve been using computers long enough, you remember when it was very important
how fast your CPU clock speed was.
Indeed, the early Intel CPUs were graded directly
by clock speed, and it was pretty simple to figure out that a bigger number was better.
But while offering COMPUTER SUPPORT IN GONZALES, LA, I’ve noticed that a lot of
people are confused by the way things work today.
What’s better: a 2.
8 GHz dual core
64 bit CPU, or a 3.
23 GHz quad core 32 bit? The numbers don’t even seem related
anymore, and it’s hard to tell which one makes the bigger difference.
In practice, you’ll generally find that your biggest choke point – dictating how fast and
well your applications really run – is the amount of memory in the system.
A close
second is generally the disk bandwidth, rather than anything CPU related, and while the
major application of faster CPUs was once higher-quality graphics…
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