COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Clock speed is measured in cycles per second. 3GHz means
A
3000 cycles (instructions) per second
B
3 million cycles (instructions) per second
C
3 cycles cycles (instructions) per second
D
3 billion cycles (instructions) per second
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 2002, an Intel Pentium 4 model was introduced as the first CPU with a clock rate of 3 GHz (three billion cycles per second corresponding to   0.33 nanoseconds per cycle).

Detailed explanation-2: -speed of around 3GHz which means the CPU can carry out three thousand million instructions per second!

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