How Can Your Processor Speed Be Increased?

Increasing Processor Speeds

Over the year, a number of strategies were used to make computer faster. In addition to reduce instruction set  and parallel computing, Processor speed can be enhanced by moving circuits closer together and by utilizing new semi-conductor materials.

• Moving circuits closer together: As, complex as computers seem to be, one natural law of physics cannot be ignored: the shorter the length of the circuit paths, the less time it takes to move programs and data along them. Advances in the field of microelectronics have made it possible for chip and computer manufacturers to pack circuits increasingly close together. Each new generation of chips typically means that twice as many circuits can be packed into the same sized space. In the last to decades, chip circuitry has progressed from LSI (large scale integration) through VSLI (very large scale integration) to USLI (ultra large scale integration).Today, it is possible to pack more than a million circuits on a single fingernail-sized chip; in the near future, this is likely to double or triple.

• New semi-conductor material: Most CPU chips consist of metallic circuitry that is etched onto a silicon base. Silicon-based chips have been popular since the1970s, when manufacturing techniques for microminiaturizing circuitry became widely available.

Increasing Processing Speed.

Increasing processing speed depends on many devices involve in a task to be processed. It is also important to know the processor itself has a specified power of processing and has limitation. But some times it is noticed that we have process for example of 2.4GHz but we feel that the system runs very slowly while the same processor in the other system works faster. There many factors involve in such behavior of ones system. Consider your processor is 2.4GHz and your RAM (Random Access Memory) is 64MB and Windows XP is installed on your PC. As it is commonly known that every thing in running form resides on RAM and the operating system itself takes a lot of memory. If you have windows XP, then 64MB of RAM is not sufficient. In the situation like this, you will not get the full advantage of your processor. This is because, the processor can process 2.4GHz but the memory (RAM 64MB) you have is not sufficient to give required data for processing. In this case we must have enough memory.

The same is going with the Hard Drive. For example you have enough processor and memory, but the Hard Drive you have is say 7000 of RPM, and cannot provide the required data, this also effect your system speed. All these things are important to be compatible with each other with balance specification.