iParanormalx
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Kindof an engineering question that can relate to decision making about system upgrades. I'm almost sure I'm missing elements of the equation so tell me where my logic is flawed:
CPU clock speed measures how many CPU cycles per second.
CPU cycle speeds are measured by frequency per second (hz).
Every cycle contains as much data the system type or memory interface allows.
Ok so for an idealistic example a 1Ghz processor (which would be 1,000,000,000 hz) running on a 32-bit OS could cycle up to 32,000,000,000 bits/sec
There are 8 bits in a byte so total CPU bandwidth in bytes could be about 4,000,000,000 bytes/sec.
In a similar example with a 64-bit OS would it double the overall bandwidth of the CPU from 4GB/s to 8GB/s?
CPU clock speed measures how many CPU cycles per second.
CPU cycle speeds are measured by frequency per second (hz).
Every cycle contains as much data the system type or memory interface allows.
Ok so for an idealistic example a 1Ghz processor (which would be 1,000,000,000 hz) running on a 32-bit OS could cycle up to 32,000,000,000 bits/sec
There are 8 bits in a byte so total CPU bandwidth in bytes could be about 4,000,000,000 bytes/sec.
In a similar example with a 64-bit OS would it double the overall bandwidth of the CPU from 4GB/s to 8GB/s?
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