Clock speed and drive size still mattered, but taste suddenly counted as well.

The new system will seek to better reflect how clock speed, cache and bus speed combine to influence the overall performance of a processor.

Tweaks specifically designed to allow a processor to operate at a higher clock speed than normal are known as overclocking.

Using a 130 nm process was also good for pushing up the core clock speed.

It has and operates at up to for clock speed.