Hardware Processor Specifications 2 Presentation 1 variant

Processor specifications

Assessment criteria:
Knows the main characteristics of the processor;
Knows the capacity of the hard drive;
Knows the purpose of the processor;
Knows and determines the clock speed

10.1.1.3 explain the main characteristics of a processor: capacity and clock speed

Vocabulary

What refers to the main technical characteristics of the computer?

Answer: hard disk size, CPU, clock speed and RAM.

What is the hard disk capacity?

Answer: This indicator characterizes the capacity of the hard drive, and based on this, you can determine how much and what information can be stored and processed on a computer. For most users it is quite suitable hard drive that can accommodate from 80 to 160 GB of information.

What value does the processor clock speed play?

Answer: is of great importance. Along with the amount of RAM, this figure directly affects the speed of the computer. If you are not going to play powerful modern games on your computer, to deal with complex processing of music files, videos, graphics, etc., then a 1.5–2 GHz processor frequency will be enough for you.

Answer: But even if a large hard drive and a powerful processor are used on your computer, and there is not enough RAM, there will be problems with speed. The average amount of RAM, which will satisfy the majority of users - 4 GB.

What does it mean?

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The capacity of the processor is one of its main parameters, which determine how many bits of information process the registers of the processor during the period of one clock cycle

The size of the processor is a value that determines the size of the machine word, that is, the amount of information that the processor exchanges information with the RAM

Processor, appointment, specifications
Clock speed - …
CPU architecture - ...

Capacity - ...
What types of processors do you know?
What values ​​can have a processor width?

What values ​​can the processor clock frequency have?
Cache memory is ...
What is measured by the processor clock speed?

Clock speed -

Processor architecture -

Capacity-

Cache memory -

What is measured by the processor clock speed?

What values ​​can have the processor clock speed?

The number of processor cycles (operations) per second. As a rule, the higher the processor clock speed, the higher its performance.

the number of bits of information it takes and processes through its registers in one clock cycle.

(super memory), used by a computer microprocessor to reduce the average access time to computer memory.

in units of frequency (megahertz and gigahertz)

have different performance, since different systems may require a different number of cycles to perform one operation

the quantitative component of the microarchitecture components of a computer, considered by IT specialists in the aspect of applied activity.

1 group: What is the processor clock speed and what should it be?
2 group: How to find out the processor width?
3 group: Now let's see what the clock speed and bit on our computer. (micro practical work)

Individual work

What happens if we try to install a 32-bit application on a 64-bit processor?