CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Graphics Processing Unit, Hyper-Threading, Overclocking

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Its clock speed: dictates how many instructions the cpu can process each second, measured in gigahertz (ghz, overclocking: run the cpu at a faster speed than the manufacturer recommends o whether it has multiple cores, a core on a cpu contains the parts of the cpu required for processing, hyper threading provides quicker processing of information by enabling a new set of instructions to start executing before the previous set has finished o. Cpu performance: cpu usage: the percentage of time your cpu is working o task manager lets you access this data o cpu usage graph: records your cpu usage for the past minute, random access memory (ram): your computer"s temporary storage space o short term memory o remembers everything that the computer needs in order to process data into information o an example of volatile storage: when the power is off the data stored in ram is cleared out.