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OCR GCSE Computer Science Exam Questions
1.1 Systems Architecture
1.1 question 43
Explain how increasing clock speed can improve CPU performance.
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MARKS
Mark scheme
More clock cycles are carried out per second, meaning the CPU can execute more instructions per second, making programs run faster (up to hardware limits).
Exam guidance
Award 1 for higher cycles per second, 1 for linked explanation of faster instruction processing.
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