Originally posted by: lookouthere
What are all the technical terms mean?
1) FSB?
2) L2 cache
3) Numbers of Instructions
Anyone know why the clock speed of one processor does not mean the performance?
FSB = front side bus... simply put, it's the connection between the CPU and the "northbridge" on the motherboard where the memory controller is
L2 cache = level 2 cache... again, simply put, it's high speed RAM located on the CPU itself
Number of Instructions... I'm not sure where you heard that... or what it's in reference to... don't know if it's in reference to the number of instructions that there are in the SSE2 instruction set... or the number of instructions in AMD's 3DNow instruction set...
Or maybe you meant Operations per Clock Cycle, in which case, that is in reference to the amount of work the CPU can do in one clock cycle.
Or maybe you meant something about the number of stages in each CPU's pipeline? I dunno... "number of instructions" can be used to talk about any number of things.