When people think computer power the first thing they think about is the processor speed. And for good reason. The CPU is the engine that makes the computer run. Where Intel used to be the hands down performance leader when it came to Power CPU's, it now faces serious competition from its competitor AMD. The fastest processor on the market today is the Intel Pentium IV running at 1.5Ghz. There are serious latency issues that keep it from being our power CPU. Latency is a series of extra steps that a component has to perform in order to function. Therefore if a processor has to work an additional fifty percent, it would still run slower than a chip that runs thirty percent slower.