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Introduction

Previously, choosing a processor for your computer, users are mostly paid attention to the brand and the clock frequency. Now, today buyers will need to choose between several manufacturers. Times have changed and all companies produce a good quality product that can meet the needs of virtually all demanding users. Plus today processor with a much lower clock frequency can easily get around faster brother, and a multi-core processor may be slower processor is built on the basis of the old architecture, at a certain load on the system (Chen, 2003, pp. 245-246).

Discussion

Characteristics of Modern Processors

Processor clock speed

This is index, which identifies the number of steps (transactions) that can make a processor for a second time. Previously, this figure was the deciding factor in choosing a computer, and subjective evaluation of the performance of the processor (Stolze and Suter, 2008, pp. 35-50).

Cores

Most modern computer processor has two or more nuclei, must exclude only the low-end models. Here everything seems logical, more cores, higher performance, but in fact it turns out that it is not so simple. In some applications, increasing productivity may indeed be due to the number of cores, but in other applications, multi-core processor can give way to its predecessor with a smaller number of cores (Stolze and Suter, 2008, pp. 35-50).

Cache memory processors

In order to increase the speed of data exchange with the memory of the computer CPUs manufactured install extra memory blocks at a high rate (called caches first, second and third levels, or LI, L2, L3 cache). Again, everything seems logical, the more the amount of cache on the CPU, the better the performance (Nielsen, and Chuang, 2001, p pp. 230-235). Moreover, the specifics of the code of software applications and much depend. Some applications with a large cache, give appreciable increase productivity, others on the contrary begin work worse because of code (DiVincenzo, 2000, pp. 23-25).

Core 4

The kernel is the foundation of any processor, from which repel each other characteristics. Buyers can find two processors with similar at first glance characteristics but with different architecture and they will show in the performance tests and on the software application completely different results (Rogers, 1995, pp. 56-60).

Technical Process

It is the scale of modern technology, which actually determines the size of semiconductor devices, employees in the internal circuits of the processor, miniature than these elements, the more perfect the technology. This does not mean that modern processor that is based on modern technological process will be faster representative of the old series. Simply, he can, for example, less warm, and therefore more effective (Krotz & Hasebrink, 2001, pp. 245-262).

Front Side Bus

FSB frequency is the speed at which a processor core communicates with RAM, discrete graphics, and peripheral controllers of the motherboard. It's simple. The higher the bandwidth, the computer is respectively higher in performance (Sterne, 2003, pp. 378-379).

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