hey what makes you computer go faster is it the ram??

Question

hey i wanna know how to make my computer go faster...also do you know where i can find out what the specifactions are on my computer?? thanks

my laptop is a g3 is that good ...its a apple??

Answer 1

The main reason people often notice a good improvement after upgrading RAM is because they were lacking some. Programs each take a certain amount of it, and depending on what you do, could take more and more up to a certain point.

(If the required memory keeps expanding it shows a software bug.)

So a specific person will normally take around the same space of memory for his regular usage. This is the minimum amount you will need!

I've worked for companies where we needed 16GB of RAM and twice the swap space, it all depends on what you do with it.

If the computer has enough RAM to avoid swapping (writing memory portions to disk temporarily: very slow), then upgrading the memory will very unlikely change anything.

Other factors that will affect the speed the most are:

- CPU speed: verify if it has a dual core, if it does it may go up to 90% faster, depending on the software you use!

- CPU internal cache: from Celerons with 128KB or 256KB to processors like the Pentium D with 2MB, (with same clock speed) there's a huge difference, even if you only use a single core of the Pentium D.
This is because some of this internal memory can be used for registries (not windows registry), those basically contain the main CPU controls as well as a lot of user defined variables. Well designed programs and operating systems will define the most common variables as registers as long as there is enough space.
The internal memory is accessed over 20 times faster than by going on the FSB to access the RAM.

- hard drive speed: more recent models are 5 times faster than the ones from 2 years ago, just to give you an idea that some performance can be gained here. The drive speed will show more in program and system load times, as well as file operations.

- Bus speed: The faster the bus, the faster your CPU can communicate will all other internal devices.

Answer 2

A speedy CPU, if bottlenecked with a slow and small RAM would be slower than a decent CPU paired with a decent RAM. I've once suffered in a computer that have a great CPU, but have a very small RAM size. It's awfully slow. Actually you can say that the CPU and RAM acts like a brain, RAM being the short-term memory storage and CPU being thinking part of the brain (and harddisk is the long-term memory storage). The thinking part of the brain would be useless if it cannot remember something, it wouldn't even be able to remember the problem given to it.

Answer 3

yes and no. The CPU is the brains of the comupter. So the faster the CPU the faster the computer. The RAM will make it go faster. The programs will run a faster and you can run more programs at the same time with more RAM.

Answer 4

Both the RAM and the Processor effect how fast your computer is. Usually if you have a problem with speed it's the RAM.

Answer 5

First, go to start> programs> accessories> system tools> system information and you will see all that is going your omputer. Second yes and no. If you have a processor of around 4.0 Gz and 1.0 Gz of memory, then that will sufficient

Answer 6

its a combination of ram, processing, hardrive space. You might want to start doing "winter clean up" to delete all files you dont' need or duplicate ones. that should speed up a bit your computer.

Answer 7

The more RAM the better.