differance between CPU speed and Frequency ??

[roryson]

just running a program to see what my cpu cores are doing and it says my CPU Frequency is 800MHZ so whats the difference between frequency and speed. cheers for your help people..

[tshirtman]

CPU speed is how fast the actual processor clicks, or the amount of bits it can push through per second.

The System clock is equivalent to the bus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-side_bus) speed

[roryson]

ok cheers m8