I always hear people say, “My computer is so slow, I can turn it on, go take a shower and come back and it will still be booting up.”One of the single best things you can do to improve performance is increase the amount of memory inside your computer.There is always confusion among some people with the relationship between memory and storage. Even though the two are physically different, there are still some similarities.Storage can come in various forms, like that of a hard drive, floppy and flash drive.Your programs, word documents and those mp3 files you illegally downloaded are permanently stored on your hard drive, or until you delete them.
Random Access Memory (RAM) or memory as we call it, stores all the running programs. What is a running program? When programs and data are not in use, they are held in mass storage, which usually means a hard drive, flash drive, or some other device that can hold data when the computer is turned off. When you click an icon to load a program (say windows media player), the program is copied from the mass storage device to RAM and then run, its then remove from RAM when you close that program.RAM is composed of small silicon chips plugged into a slot on the motherboard of your computer.More memory is better to boost your PC’s performance, but before buying more RAM, it’s important to check the documentation that come with the computer to find the maximum amount of ram the motherboard supports.
I had a desktop computer running at 1GHz Pentium chip, and 128MB RAM and a laptop running 700MHz and 512MB RAM. Even though the desktop had a faster CPU the laptop would sometime run faster because it had more memory.
Some stores always encourage you to buy the latest and fastest CPU, but I think that without the right amount of RAM the CPU won’t run at its full potential.
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