I have an ARM-based embedded machine based on S3C2416 board. According to the specifications I have available there should be a 533 MHz ARM9 (ARM926EJ-S according to /proc/cpuinfo), however the software running on it “feels” slow, compared to the same software on my Android phone with a 528MHz ARM CPU. /proc/cpuinfo tells me that BogoMIPS … Read more
This question already has answers here: Closed 10 years ago. Possible Duplicate: Why are modern CPUs “underclocked”? When I was searching around for a desktop awhile back I came across a lot of discussions where techies talked about taking an e.g. 2.67GHz processor and ‘overclocking’ it so that it ran at 4GHz. If a CPU … Read more
I keep reading since years about magical overclockability of modern CPUs. It is said that CPUs (with open multiplier) which are shipped to customers with (let’s say) preset 3GHz, can be overclocked “without problems” to (let’s say) 4GHz. But I can’t believe that CPU manufacturers are fooling themselves. I am thinking: should a CPU always … Read more
I remember sometime around 1995 having a computer with CPU speed of 75 MHz. Then a couple of years later around 1997 having one that was 211 MHz. Then a few years later around 2000 having one that was like 1.8 GHz, then around 2003 having one that was about 3 GHz. Now almost 8 … Read more
I’ve got a few old programs I pulled off an early 90s-era Windows computer and tried to run them on a relatively modern computer. Interestingly enough, they ran at a blazing fast speed – no, not the 60 frames per second kind of fast, rather the oh-my-god-the-character-is-walking-at-the-speed-of-sound kind of fast. I would press an arrow … Read more
I just read about the new Samsung Galaxy Note Edge having a 2.7 GHz quad-core processor and 3GB of RAM. The laptop I bought last year by HP is 4 GB of RAM and 2.3 GHz quad-core and my iMac is even older and is 2.5 GHz i5. Does this mean that the new Samsung gadget is more powerful … Read more
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