what are the factors that will effect the speed of a computer?

Answer 1

How much you have stored in the computer, RAM and processor

Answer 2

Probably when people talk about a powerful computer what they really mean is a fast one that can run more than one program at a time. There are several things that effect speed. Here are the highlights of the things that effect the speed of a computer. First, the speed of the processor is important. Speeds greater than 1 Gigahertz are the fastest. That is how fast the computer processes actual commands internally. But there are other factors that make a computer faster. The amount of memory, or RAM is very important. The more there is, the faster the computer will operate, especially if you will be running more than one application at a time. Another feature to consider is the hard drive data access rate. This one is more complicated, but means how fast the program loads from the hard drive which is mechanical into the memory of the computer. Normally this isn't one of the advertised issues and a computers price might be a little less if the manufacturer puts a slower hard drive in the computer. The computers purchased in schools usually have a higher speed hard drive. The last item effecting speed is for computers that will be using a lot of graphics such as video games or imaging and publishing. In this type of use a graphics accelerator can speed up your computer.

Answer 3

IF you talking of speeding up your computer without additional hardware such as RAM, Harddisk, Microprocessor.. then check the following steps (assuming you are using Windows).

1. Run 'Disk Cleanup' (Go to 'Start Menu' -> 'All Programs' -> Accessories -> 'System Tools' -> 'Disk Cleanup')

2. Empty your 'Recycle Bin' regularly.

3. Delete all files from the Windows Temp directory at C:\windows\temp (make sure you got that path right).

4. Defrag your harddisk (Go to 'Start Menu' -> 'All Programs' -> Accessories -> 'System Tools' -> 'Defragmentation')

5. If that still doesn't speed up your computer, try uninstalling programs you do not use.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Proceesor speed and throughput
Amount and speed of ram
Bus size and speed
Sidebus size and speed
Harddrive speed and access times (defrag often to keep it moving fast :-)

Cable Modem or T1 "dial-up is worthless.

Answer 6

Your CPU, RAM helps a lot. Also be sure to get a good motherboard, so your system bus is fast.

Answer 7

processor - number of GHZ or MHZ (the higher the better)

RAM - random access memory MB or GB (GB is better, the higher the better)

wether your graphics or video card is onboard your mother board or not (not on board is betteR)

hope this helps

Answer 8

On your processor and RAM, mostly.