When you're comparing two of the best CPUs, the first spec that comes to mind is clock speed. It quite literally represents how fast the CPU can churn through clock cycles, and naturally ...

The internal heartbeat of a computer, also known as "clock rate." The clock circuit uses fixed vibrations generated from a quartz crystal to deliver a steady stream of pulses to the CPU.

That simply wouldn’t do, so he initially tried to put together a variation of the clock circuit that [Paul Law] used in his gorgeous relay computer. In the end he couldn’t quite get it working ...

The ODT-CRX-2P5G-16 is a high-speed clock receiver circuit capable of operating up to 2.5 GHz with low output jitter. The CRX uses a high-speed signal path that can provide low jitter for input ranges ...

The processors had their L1 bridges lasered off to prevent users from changing the chip's clock ... the processor's multiplier settings in the system BIOS, completing factory-destroyed circuits ...