There are a number of terms relating to processor speed. The most common frequency is simply the clock frequency. There are others such as a PLL frequency that can be used to multiply the clock frequency and instruction cycle frequency that is usually lower than the basic clock frequency.
In all cases, the processor data sheet or the mother board data sheet will identify the name of the frequencies to which it refers.
This, on a modern PC and on many small microprocessor chips, is set by a frequency multiplier and a crystal. The crystal vibrates like a tuning fork at some high rate, such as 133 MHz. The CPU has a built in multiplier that can multiply this frequency by 4, 8, 16 or other multipliers set by the manufacturer of the CPU (sometimes accessible by the user for "overclocking" purposes). This gives the final speed for the processor, like 1.7GHz, 2.13GHz or 3.58GHz.
It tells you how many operations per second your processor is capable to do. The higher frequency is better. Also you have to take in count a number of cores.
Computer operating speed is generally the speed at which the CPU operates, known as the clock speed. It is expressed in Mega-Hertz or Giga-Hertz. For example a Pentium M processor running at 1.8 Gigahertz is being clocked internally at 1.8 GHz.
Computer operating speed is generally the speed at which the CPU operates, known as the clock speed. It is expressed in Mega-Hertz or Giga-Hertz. For example a Pentium M processor running at 1.8 Gigahertz is being clocked internally at 1.8 GHz.
Core clock is the actual speed at which the graphics processor on a video card on a computer operates. The core clock speed is measured in megahertz.
Your PC could have a slow processor. The processor speed on your computer will slow down how fast your computer operates.
That's the speed the clock inside the Central Processor Unit operates. The faster the clock - the more operations per second the computer can perform.
Gigahertz is a unit of frequency equivalent to one billion hertz, commonly used to measure the clock speed of a computer processor. Example: The new computer processor operates at a speed of 3 gigahertz, making it faster than the previous model.
Th clock speed is the processor speed. It is simply the amout of operations the processor can do per second. However if the processor has multiple cores, it will be as fast as number of cores * clock speed. Note that the processor speed is not the overall computer speed.
It's called "overclocking".
Overclocking
speed of a processor is measured by CMU(Clock Multiplier Unit). Formula:(speed of processor in Hz)/(FSB of processor)= CMU
The only way to increase the processor speed is by overclocking. Through overclocking, you can increase the overall speed of the processor.