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Do you suffer with a slow computer and find yourself wanting to scream at all of the conflicting advice you find when you search the Internet for a cure? You’ve undoubtedly come across a myriad of websites trying to sell you registry cleaners that claim to speed your computer up, wash the dishes, and do your laundry every Sunday morning.

These sites look more like blatant sales pitches than they do truly useful websites. Do you really take a chance on the software they’re touting? Will it really speed up your computer? Will it do more harm than good?

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One component of a computer that can seriously slow things down is the Central Processing Unit (CPU) or the processor for short. Computer processor upgrades can easily work miracles in making a computer run faster and only plays second fiddle to RAM memory upgrades. Unfortunately, a computer processor upgrade is not always completely straight forward.

First off though, what does the computer processor do? A good answer can be found at in the CPU page at Wikipedia.org and put simply; a computer processor takes information from memory and manipulates it. The computer processor is essentially the brains of the computer and does all of the work necessary to run programs. It manages the computer hardware, software, and operating system and is the device that is responsible for all that computational power.

Computer processors are rated in GHz (GigaHertz) in reference to the number of instructions a processor can handle in a single second. Today’s processors running at 3 GHz process an outrageous 3 BILLION instructions per second. The faster the processor runs, the more it can process, and the faster the computer runs.

Newer computer processors run so fast, that they have reached the point where if they were to run faster, they would overheat so much as to be unusable. In order to keep up with demand for faster and faster processors, manufacturers are no longer making their processors faster; they’re packing more of them onto a single chip. Dual core processors have two distinct processors on the same chip and quad core have four.

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