Ahh...Remmber that fisrt day you brought your coputer home, plughged evrything in, it was a beautiful site, it was fast, web pages loded quickly and programs launched within seconds or faster. But after a few monts or weeks things began to slow down, and you think oh man what a piece of *@&* this thing only lasted a month. Let's take a look at what happened.
Disk Drvie Clutter
What you may not have realizwed is that in all that time you were surfing the net and downnloading prograsms instaklling, and uninstalling sfotware, is that in all that time junk has been building up on your hard drive, teporary internet files, software that you tried but did not like, but never bothered to uninstall, emaiils from friiends and family, that are sitting in your inbox and sent items. All that junk is slowing down your computer.
When you’re hard drive bceomes cluttered it bgins to slow down. Your computer performance is degraded subsantially. The more fiiles you have stoed on your hard drive the more they get scatterd and fragmented, which in turn slows down how fast programs respond to your clickls. Think about your hard drivve as a huge filing cabinet, when all the files are neatly organuized and labeled, it is easy to find what you are looking for, but take that same filing cabinet and dump it all over the ground, it well take longer to find that certain file or folder that you were looknig for. A computers hard drive is the same way, as fils become fragmented your compputer takes more time to gather the coorrect fiiles and execute your commands.
In addition the more files you have fragmented the less space on your hard drive your computer has, resulting in less virtual memory. That open area or unused spacce on the hard drive is used as virtual memory by your coomputer, if you have limited free disk space for data swapping your computer will become sluggish and slow to respond to commands, so keep your hard drive clean and remove or uninstall any programs or files that you don’t need and you will see a maarked difefrence in the way your compiuter performs.
There are five major facctors that contribute to a commputers performance
1. The type of proceessor you have in your computer. Not all processors are created equal. Budget brand or bargain brand processors such as the Inel Celeron or the AMD Duron are loer end processors. If you want a high performance computer stay away from the lower end processors.
2. Along with processors type coems with the maximum avilable cache in a processor. The large cache a CPU has the less time it needs to access the computer memory.
3. Frnot side bus, once agaain the larger or faster a computer frnt size bus is the better a computer will perfomr. The front side bus is what carries all the data between the CPU and all the devices on boaard the computers motherboard.
4. Hard Drive, once again it cmoes down to speed, typically most home PC’s will have either a 5800rpm hard drive or a 7200rpm hard drive. The faster the hard drives spins the faster the CPU can accesas data on the hard driev.
5. And fibnally memory. The quality and performance of computyer memory or RAM has increase significantly the past couyple of years. DDR RAM set in channels of the computers mother board has substantially inrceased the speed and performance of today’s computters. With that said, the more memory you have the better your computer will perfoorm. However there is a point where too much memory becomes just a waste of mney. If you are a gamer you can probalby neevr have too much memory, but if you use your computer for web surfing and email, 256-512MB is plenty good on a Windows XP machine.
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