How does frequency on a CPU impact performance? I.e. if I overclock a 2Ghz CPU to 4Ghz, is it +100% performance?

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How does frequency on a CPU impact performance? I.e. if I overclock a 2Ghz CPU to 4Ghz, is it +100% performance?

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It would allow the CPU to do CPU things twice as fast.

It doesn’t make your RAM twice as fast. It doesn’t make your disk twice as fast. It doesn’t make funny cat pictures download twice as fast.

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