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How is CPU clock rate maintained?
I was reading an article Clock rate from wikipedia which has to say that:
The clock rate typically refers to the frequency that a CPU is running at.
The clock rate of a CPU is normally ...
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How to change PC clock speed for individual programs?
We have some older programs (no source code anymore) that run too fast on CPUs with faster clock speeds. I'm guessing that they were written using software delays ('X' number of CPU instructions per ...
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AMD Opteron 248 H264
Would an AMD Opteron 248 CPU machine handle slightly faster than real time H264 encoding, using something like Sorenson Squeeze 8?
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Overclocked Intel Core 2 Duo E4300, what now?
I have overclocked Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4300 CPU. I changed FSB from 200 to 220.
Multiplier is x9. The old core speed was 9 x 200 = 1800 GHz. Now it's 1980 GHz.
I runed memtest to 20 passes ...
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“svhost(netsvc)” is using about 40-80% CPU when the system starts
My CPU usage is constantly at 40% (maximum 95%) most of the time when I start my PC. It continues to work at this rate for about 15-25 minutes.
I checked the performance monitor and found out that ...
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How to run the CPU at something like 75%?
My notebook is too old for me to invest into a new fan (it will simply be replaced by a new one when the final heat death occurs), but when it runs on full speed I feel like sitting in front of a ...
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CPU giving 1/3 performance compared to same CPUs
I have a laptop Dell D820 with Intel Core Duo T2500 @ 2.00 GHz, more than four years old, still in good condition.
When I benchmarked the CPU using the PerformanceTest 7.0 from ...
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Should I prefer processor speed (GHz) or core count? [closed]
I'm currently in the market for a new computer, so I'm curious about the recent trends of processor speed versus core count. Core count seems to be 'all the rage' these days, but things are really ...
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How to compare Intel and AMD Processors when different sites give such different rankings?
How can I get reliable information on the actual speed in practice of different processors? For example, I'm comparing 2 laptops with these processors:
Intel Core i3-2310M
AMD A6-3400M
According ...
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Why aren't all CPUs 'overclocked' as a factory default? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are modern CPUs “underclocked”?
When I was searching around for a desktop awhile back I came across a lot of discussions where techies talked about ...
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cpufreq policy acting weird, current policy max gets throttled
I'm using laptop-mode and the ondemand governor. When I do
cpufreq-info I get
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: acpi-cpufreq
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1
CPUs which need to have ...
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Shuttle S113G or SN27P2 which is better for MAME machine? [closed]
I'm thinking about buying one of the two Shuttle PC's listed in the title for use in a MAME (arcade emulator) cabinet. I will be replacing the Video card with a custom PCI-e video card (ArardeVGA - ...
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Clock Speed and other factors
I hear almost everywhere that CPU clock speed is not the only factor that defines the true speed of a CPU. Well. What are the other factors then? In which case a processor clocked at 1.6 Ghz is faster ...
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Why is my computer twice as fast when i double the memory?? I mean like desktop animations are twice as fast. ALL games are like fast forward
I'd like 4 gigs of memory but then everything is TOO fast!! If i take out one memory chip then everything is fine. How can i have 4 gigs but keep everything at 1x speed?
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Why are laptop CPUs comparable in speed with other desktop processors but on lower frequency?
Is it so depended on architecture? Because I notice some overclocked desktop CPUs outperform noticeably other desktop CPUs but laptop CPUs on 2000MHz aren't necessarily very different from Desktop ...
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Has CPU speed already broken Moore's law?
I remember sometime around 1995 having a computer with CPU speed of 75 MHz.
Then a couple of years later around 1997 having one that was 211 MHz.
Then a few years later around 2000 having one that ...
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Multi-core processor speed
Might be a basic question: is the clock rate (1.7 GHz, etc.) that is mentioned for multi-core processors (e.g., Intel i5, i7) the clock rate per core, or it is the total speed of all cores combined?
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Usefulness of multi-core in the context of power-efficient computing
I'm considering options for a new portable PC. I'd like to keep power utilization at a minimum, while being able to run batch jobs as quickly as possible. Batch jobs I can generally parallelize ...
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Using Server CPU for Desktop Applications
Though it's a n00bish question I haven't found any clear answer anywhere even after long days of googling.
Recently I am planning to use an AMD Opteron Quad Core 2350 for my home lab.
I'll not run it ...
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processor speed with HDD
I have been doing some research to buy a laptop for software development. I have been told by one of my co-worker that having a processor over 2.2 GHz with 7200 RPM HDD makes no sesne. He said that ...
