2006-07-10 14:17:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Well both. The processor speed is the rating that the data travels, but when you have a wider bus the more data you can process at higher speeds. The bus speed would be your answer.
2006-07-10 14:21:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of things in terms of driving a car down a road. The speed you're driving the car at would be the processor speed. And the number of lanes on the highway would be bus speed.
The processor's speed, measured in mega or gigahertz is how fast it can process information. Bus speed is how much information can travel between the processor and other things within the computer. The faster the bus, the more lanes information can travel. More bus speed means more lanes you can drive on. More lanes means more cares, so a faster bus means more info can be handled.
2006-07-11 06:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by msoexpert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bus speed doesn't actually make the processor itself faster. bus speed just allows the processor to communicate with other system components (ie: ram, video card, harddisk) at a faster speed. between bus speed and "megahertz", its the clock frequency (the correct term for what you're referring to) that would make it faster.
however, clock frequency is a very inaccurate measurement of speed of a processor. a perfect example of this is the recent CPU wars between AMD and Intel. Intel's processors are scaling up to 4Ghz yet they run much slower than AMD's 2.8Ghz chips. This is due to the fact that there are different methods of how a processor does its calculations. AMD had a better instruction set and could do the same number of calcuations as Intel for each clock cycle.
2006-07-10 21:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by Adam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both play their own role. Bus speed is how fast data can be passed between the processor and other system components, which will affect speed. Clock speed (megahertz) affects how fast the processor cycles through the calculations. You should check benchmarking sites to see comparisons between different processors, as there are other factors as well (L1 and L2 cache, for example) that will also affect the processor's speed.
2006-07-10 22:35:34 · answer #4 · answered by Andy M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Megs, but with some processors, you can tune the bus speed, or overclock. I am running a D series processor, on a ASUS board and I can overclock my cpu to around 1200.
2006-07-10 21:21:54 · answer #5 · answered by thugtwin1@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bus speed AND megahertz.
but also the processor architecture.
2006-07-15 16:42:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
MHz and cpu cache
2006-07-10 21:21:14 · answer #7 · answered by sohrab_ark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple answer for simple question is...
Megahertz and Cache...
2006-07-11 16:51:14 · answer #8 · answered by apvikingz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mghtz
2006-07-10 21:20:17 · answer #9 · answered by brett_day2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋