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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The CPU handles general processing tasks. Microsoft word, your web browser etc. That’s being ran on your CPU and the faster it is the faster it will process those programs. However there are other things to consider like RAM, which you can think of as the “desk space” your computer has to work with. When your computer runs out of desk space it has to stick some things in its filing cabinet(the hard drive/ssd) and pull it back out later. This slows things down so it’s better to have as much desk space as you can afford. This is before getting to things like video games, autocad, and photoshop, which all use a graphics card because graphics cards have their own processor and memory that are designed to efficiently process the kinds of mathematics used in visual/graphical calculations.
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