Central Processing Unit

There are several factors to take into consideration when selecting a processor. As the CPU speed war continues, competition will only benefit your applications and their performance. The continual evolution of processors will make selecting the correct processor continually more difficult, as the processor becomes more and more sensitive to the operating system it has to support.

Each processor is rated by several variables, including processor cache capacity, front side bus speed, dual-core support, hyper-threading support, and 32- and 64-bit support. This section explains each of these components, outlining the benefit that each brings to application performance.