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 about Stephen Hawking. Great brain but tetraplegic.
So he needed assistance to do everything outside thinking.
Imagine his nurse being an asshole and making him wait forever to get a sip of water that he needs so he can continue his thinking work because dehydration hinders his thinking abilities.
He looses two hours of thinking because the nurse is poorly trained or an asshole.
Now imagine the same scene but with a nurse that is committed to his work and is constantly doin back and forth to please Stephen needs to carry out his mental work.
That’s about it.
CPUs are useful but must be fed fast enough for their potential to be unleashed.
If you pair a fast CPU with slow RAM there is only so much data that the CPU can crunch at every given time. This is called a bottleneck
If you pair that same cpu with blazing fast RAM, the CPU could churn away constantly without spending so much time waiting for data.
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