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Frequency

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StrangeQuark

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Jan 25, 2004
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What is CPU frequency? I know that it is cycles per second (or billions of cycles per second now), but I want to know what it physically is. Is it the frequency of the current changes (impossible, if I'm right in thinking computers use DC), or what?
 
i believe the strict definition is the rate at which the processor executes instructions. i don't know the physical process by which the crystal pulses those cycles.
 
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