Archive for April, 2006

Are Two Processors Twice As Fast As One by matt on April 26, 2006

Q: Will a computer with two processors be twice as fast as if it had one processor?
A: With two processors you do not add up the speeds of the two processors together to get the total speed of the system. If you have two 1 GHz processors you do not have a 2 GHz system. [...]