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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Think of PC like of a wood factory. You have a hard drive thats a warehouse with stacks of wood, then another building with central processing unit, which is wood cutting machine, and memory which is space directly around the machine. You need to deliver wood from warehouse to the building with the machine, feed the machine and unload the processed material.
If machine is too slow, then no matter how fast you deliver wood or how much space there is, you’re not gonna get much done.
On the other side, if your machine is super fast, but it’s placed in a crammed space, it’s gonna be running on half of its efficiency because its gonna be hard to keep up with loading it with wood and unload the processed boards.
If machine is fast with ample space but warehouse has few loading spaces or trucks in the warehouse are few or slow, then you’re not gonna have fast enough access to material for processing so the machine is gonna constantly wait for material to arrive.
Good PC have balanced components that allow each other to reach optimal performance.
Think of additional components like of machines that take wood from your CPU and do other stuff. Like GPU would paint the boards. Speed of producing boards should be balanced with the speed of painting the boards, otherwise you leave performance on the table.
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