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Here is some Hardware Changes that will enhance your
performance
Graphics Card - Hard
Drive - IDE Cable - Memory
- Processor
| A graphics card change will enhance performance, on the
desktop and in games. A definite upgrade to help speed up
your system, but be careful what you buy and make sure you
have the slot to plug it into. |
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Check with manufacturer of motherboard or
computer to see if they can accept these graphics cards (In
order of importance) - PCI-Express graphics card, AGP graphics card, and finally PCI graphics card.
Check out our guide here :
http://www.hardware.windowsreinstall.com/graphicscard.htm
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Consider upgrading your hard drive, a newer faster drive
will definitely make a big difference to your system, if your have the
connections, then consider adding a sata drive, even without a sata
connection on your board you can purchase an expansion
card to add these ports and benefit from the cheaper
prices of these faster and larger drives.
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| Check out our guide for hard drives here :
http://www.hardware.windowsreinstall.com/harddrive.htm |
| If you are using a standard IDE cable on your hard drive
(HDD) and
both your motherboard and hard drive support UDMA, then changing the
cable to a Ultra DMA/ATA IDE Ribbon Cable,
will improve performance drastically. Most Ultra DMA/ATA IDE
Ribbon Cables have a blue, yellow or red end, where as standard cables
have black connectors at both ends. This can be a major upgrade, with up
to a 90% increase in speed. |
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One of the easier options for a speed increase is to add memory.
In more modern computers that use DDR, DDR2 or DDR3, you could consider changing your
memory to a higher speed and amount. Be careful as the newest high speed memory is
not supported by all motherboards. Check with your PC manufacturer or
motherboard creator for compatibility.
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Also remember that DDR2 or DDR3 is not compatible with DDR, as
SDRAM is not compatible with other three. Keeping to the same speed is
very important as this can cause system problems, but also reduces the
speed of the faster ram to that of the slowest.
Check out our guide for memory
http://www.hardware.windowsreinstall.com/memory.htm
Note: You have to use a 64 bit operating system
to use more than 3GB of ram. |
| A processor upgrade will always boast performance,
but remember your motherboard may not accept it and the upgrade could
turn out to be very expensive. You must always check with manufacturer
of motherboard to see if it will accept the processor you have in mind.
Changing motherboard and processor may also require memory,
hard drive, graphics card change, plus other hardware. |
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| Check out our guide to processors here :
http://www.hardware.windowsreinstall.com/processor.htm
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