Possible improvements for a computer system and their costs and benefits - D2

There are many components of a computer that can be improved and upgraded. this can benefit running software and can benefit the efficiency of the jobs the system must do.

RAM
You have the ability to change the amount of RAM that your computer has. this has benefits that will widely increase productivity by the system; the reason for this is because the speed at which your computer runs depends on your amount of RAM.
Here are just a few examples of features that will become faster:

• System Start Up
• Any Programs

Some programs also require a minimum amount of RAM to run, therefore if this was upgraded you can have choice of some high quality software that you couldn't use before. 

What that is also very helpful is it's cost, RAM is fairly cheap. As an example think of this scenario,  you computer runs on DDR3 RAM and holds 2GB of it, you may decide to double this to 4GB, on average this costs around £20-£25. Therefore you have the chance to double the efficiency of your computer system for a fairly cheap price. 

Hard Drive

The hard drive is one of the most important pieces of hardware in a computer, but it can be easily be upgraded and this can be a huge advantage to you. the hard drive is the saved memory of your computer, therefore if you upgraded to a larger size you could save a lot more onto it, therefore you can store more software programs, sounds/music, videos, images, word processing and much, much more. 

The price isn't too large either, if you were working on a 250GB hard drive and managed to use most (or all) of it up, you will need a new hard drive. if you are going to replace the whole thing, make sure to back everything up before the upgrade, however you may be able to add a second hard drive to the system. 

An example of a potential price is around £35 - £40 for a 1TB hard drive, that is more than 4 times the 250GB before. 

Graphics Card

A third way of improving your system is by upgrading and maybe installing the graphics card. This will take a huge load off the RAM and CPU as they do not need to load and process graphics themselves, the graphics card will do that for them. The graphics card is like a stick of RAM as it holds its own memory, however this memory is only used as a means of processing graphics. therefore, the RAM which would run some graphics will be used instead to run programs.

You can get a 1GB Graphics Card for as little as £35.

To conclude, I would say that all these benefits certainly outway the costs as they are rather cheap anyway. you will have the chance to make your computer system much better for little cost.