Hello, everyone! I’ve been doing some research into computer hardware lately, and one thing that I keep coming across is this idea that the speed of a processor, while important, isn’t the only thing that affects a computer’s overall performance. I’m having a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around this because I always thought that a faster processor meant a faster computer. Can anyone explain why this isn’t necessarily the case? I’m really interested to learn more about this!
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Your computer is a highway. A better processor can create more cars to use this highway, and stuff like memory and storage are little towns that branch off this highway, filling cars with goods to ship back to the processor. A great processor and a bad memory is like trying to push 8 lanes of highway traffic onto a two lane street: no matter how many highway lanes of cars you add, the entire system is limited by that two lane street.
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