What affects the performance of a computer?

What affects the performance of a computer?

1. RAM

   • What?
     • RAM stands for Random Access Memory
     • It is volatile storage
   • How?
     • You would want a big ram so that you can open many thins such as documents and files without your computer going slow.

2. Clock speed

   • What?
     • Clock speed is measured in hertz.
     • clock speed is how many instruction the computer can process in a second.
   • How?
     • A high clock speed would mean that you could run many instructions in an amount of seconds.

3. Cores

   • What?
     • Cores are the processing units for the CPU
     • A core contains an ALU, control unit and registers
   • How?
     • The more cores you have, the more channels you can have which will make your CPU and computer go faster.

4. Cache

   • How?
     • The more cache there is the more data can be stored closer to the CPU.
   • What?
     • Cache is closer to the CPU than the RAM
     • It holds instructions that the CPU is likely to refuse.