224 32-bit vs. 64-bit systems 2009-10-17T11:14:58.603

110 Why doesn't "add more cores" face the same physical limitations as "make the CPU faster"? 2014-08-15T14:22:01.063

79 Why do we have CPUs with all the cores at the same speeds and not combinations of different speeds? 2017-06-24T13:25:56.087

73 How does a CPU 'know' what commands and instructions actually mean? 2011-07-06T14:44:18.040

63 Why have CPU manufacturers stopped increasing the clock speeds of their processors? 2013-07-08T08:00:31.780

37 How can I enable PAE on Windows 7 (32-bit) to support more than 3.5 GB of RAM? 2009-10-07T14:11:37.867

37 Why are newer generations of processors faster at the same clock speed? 2013-01-29T23:56:01.007

29 What`s the difference between Intel 64 and AMD64? 2012-01-29T17:30:34.743

26 How can I determine if the current version of Windows is either 32-bit or 64-bit from the command line? 2010-01-15T05:28:57.957

19 Why does the heat production increase as the clockrate of a CPU increases? 2010-07-14T12:59:49.760

19 Are 64-bit processors "faster" than 32-bit ones, simply because they are 64-bits? 2014-03-05T21:04:27.667

17 What's the main difference between Intel processor generations? 2011-07-25T12:24:46.003

16 Is the amount of NUMA nodes always equal to sockets? 2015-05-19T06:03:05.867

14 Why is SRAM faster than DRAM? 2013-09-21T10:14:55.103

12 Why can't Windows 7 be installed on a ARM processor based system? 2011-08-26T13:42:02.997

11 Will a new processor with slower clockspeed run legacy applications faster? 2011-10-20T06:55:24.003

10 Is my i7 920 Intel processor considered ia64 or x64? 2009-08-12T15:26:50.647

10 Does the 6502 put FF in the stack pointer register as soon as it gets power for the first time? 2011-10-14T17:38:30.257

10 Does a CPU clock frequency vary on-demand? 2015-08-28T00:44:01.783

9 where does Kernel reside on a multi-core system 2013-03-12T13:05:43.397

9 Confusion with terms -> FSB, QPI, HT, DMI, UMI 2013-05-09T20:04:25.540

8 What's the difference between a hardware register and a memory-mapped register? 2013-12-31T21:35:16.033

8 Why Hyper-Threading provides 2 virtual cores but not more? 2017-08-10T14:33:10.307

7 What do the terms "asynchronous" and "synchronous" mean, with respect to the definition of an interrupt? 2011-08-02T17:54:34.427

7 Is it possible for an x86 processor to match an ARM processor in terms of performance per watt? 2013-09-03T06:06:51.010

7 How do general binaries take advantage from new instructionsets on new CPUs 2014-01-29T11:01:51.463

7 What's the difference between a superscalar and a vector processor? 2017-01-21T16:23:51.197

7 Change CPU MHz from Registry 2019-06-21T08:33:42.310

6 How can I find a list of all SSE instructions? What happens if a CPU doesn't support SSE? 2012-11-06T00:55:38.870

6 Definition of a processor vs core (multiprocessor vs multicore) 2016-02-16T05:41:12.910

5 What is the meaning of dual core vs. dual cpus? 2011-03-20T15:42:07.593

5 Intel's AES-NI performance: Isn't the hard drive the bottleneck? 2011-07-25T04:53:30.120

5 How many registers does Intel® Core™ i7-3770T Processor have? 2013-04-19T19:47:53.663

5 Does a hotter processor run faster? 2013-08-25T15:47:07.910

5 Why do we need multiple levels of cache memory? 2014-01-01T12:02:57.653

5 32-bit to 64-bit skipping 48-bit? 2014-08-17T11:41:33.570

5 Do process switch between different cores? 2018-03-29T13:38:57.373

5 How to make a 32-bit program from a 64-bit version? 2018-09-11T07:29:09.290

5 Linux : Understanding load average and % CPU? 2019-02-05T02:43:46.190

4 How to determine control/data/address bus width 2014-03-27T01:11:02.820

4 Reading CPU model specific registers on linux 2016-04-23T08:00:05.763

4 Is there any existing CPU implementation which uses one's complement? 2016-10-20T19:33:28.863

4 What are the north and south bridges of a motherboard? 2016-12-04T01:32:57.660

4 Gives TSX-NI an advantage for running virtual machines? 2019-03-17T15:46:34.913

3 How is bit number of register determined? 2010-09-16T15:32:01.577

3 64 bit Operating System? 2010-10-10T07:58:10.247

3 "Processor register" and "IO register" 2011-07-09T14:57:02.623

3 How to count the approximate number of Intel-compatible binaries/programs on a computer running OS X Lion, and time that count? 2012-01-31T09:43:24.777

3 Understanding the nop byte(s) 2012-06-05T14:11:14.697

3 Direct Memory Access(DMA) controllers for intel 2012-06-20T12:29:55.473

3 CPU and Motherboard clock speeds 2012-11-20T23:00:21.767

3 How interrupts and privilege levels work? 2013-10-18T11:40:40.087

3 Why CPU emulation is slow 2014-01-05T17:40:46.133

3 Do emulators parse binary code within files? 2014-01-27T21:51:05.533

3 Difference between a read and load 2015-07-18T12:29:52.613

3 Conflicting answers regarding system compability + refurbished laptop + 32/64 bit 2015-12-25T06:09:36.910

3 Why are certain features disabled on K-Variant Intel i7 CPUs? 2017-02-04T02:52:26.410

3 X86 Address Space Controller? 2017-06-18T14:26:23.223

3 Windows 10 CPU speed command 2018-01-16T06:21:08.983

3 How are decimal operations calculated? 2018-01-25T03:46:48.007

3 How is the micro-op cache tagged? 2018-10-20T12:51:31.847

2 Which Windows 7 Version (32 bit or 64 bit) should I install on a new MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM? 2009-10-22T16:02:33.840

2 How to tell if an EXE is 32-bit or 64-bit? 2011-01-17T14:28:55.597

2 What's the difference between the graphics capabilities in Sandy Bridge and an accelerated graphics card? 2011-07-14T01:16:06.750

2 VMWare on Intel i7-2600[S/K]: VM processor configuration for maximum performance 2012-01-07T17:39:05.760

2 Hardware. What is the difference between a port and a bank? 2012-03-14T03:06:39.287

2 "nop; jmp short" vs. "jmp short; nop" 2012-06-05T13:52:03.027

2 Instruction assignment with multiple CPUs 2012-12-06T18:36:23.630

2 Why MIPS CPU has 32 Register? 2014-03-11T18:34:20.057

2 What does "address resolution at the byte level" mean? 2015-05-31T00:57:59.403

2 What instruction set architecture (ISA) is RDRAND and RDSEED part of? 2015-11-12T11:41:57.880

2 Is it correct to say that main memory (RAM) is a part of CPU? 2017-04-09T14:06:51.203

2 Is there a way to tell if my hardware supports specific instructions? 2017-09-19T17:20:40.997

2 Virtualization not supported when attempting to run Docker for Windows on an AMD C-60 2019-05-02T17:41:30.677

2 Armhf binaries on aarch64 2019-08-29T10:18:28.433

2 Can one core perform several operations/instructions during one tick (because core has different execution units)? 2019-09-04T09:05:01.703

2 GPU cores vs. CPU cores 2020-01-10T16:02:02.743

1 Using UEFI to access CPU features which are locked in BIOS 2012-11-01T23:57:09.750

1 When a thread is created, how is the initial context determined? 2012-12-12T00:47:04.133

1 Which enhanced instruction set does an application use? 2013-11-05T21:35:49.040

1 When modern computers boot, what initial setup of RAM do they execute, and how does it exactly work? 2013-11-09T21:39:02.500

1 CISC and VLIW, and instruction and opcode 2014-01-28T03:17:04.403

1 Confusing info from /proc/cpuinfo: CPU Frequency: 2014-02-28T19:44:49.307

1 x86 i386 i686 amd64 i5 i7 architecture processor confusion 2014-07-05T08:54:56.627

1 What does “book” mean in the output of 'lscpu -p'? 2014-10-10T19:53:17.333

1 Computer architecture : DDR3 memory technology - slot capacity scaling 2015-02-09T13:45:04.847

1 How to find out computer architecture WITHOUT access to Control Panel 2015-02-25T20:20:12.327

1 What is the relationship between PMU and PEBS for intel CPU? 2015-03-09T02:03:35.700

1 Where is the CPUID string located in the CPU? 2015-03-12T17:33:20.197

1 If a 32 bit CPU has a 64bit bus system, is it 64 bit or 32 bit? 2015-05-07T20:02:41.030

1 Windows 8.1 32bit version upgrade to Windows 10 64bit version 2015-08-06T09:59:09.817

1 Does my processor support PAE? 2015-12-01T23:45:52.153

1 The main difference between Superscalar and Parallelism 2016-02-07T03:07:29.853

1 Are cores in a CPU package always identical? 2016-04-15T09:34:51.540

1 Understanding cpu usage 2016-05-17T15:47:17.487

1 What is DEP, and how do I find out if my processor supports it? 2017-09-20T00:12:30.217

1 How to run executable without specific CPU flags? 2017-10-17T11:44:10.273

1 How does CPU/DMA access hard disk? 2019-05-28T06:13:36.240

1 Spectre/Meltdown Windows vs. Ubuntu 2019-07-02T20:08:00.973