Easy Computer Upgrades for Any User

There are many things a person can easily do for an upgrade with little or no research at all. First lets cover a few aspects of what you may use your computer for, and how we can cheaply tune it up.

I will start with the motherboard or sometimes called the main board. This is where everything connects to. The "guts" of our system. When building or upgrading an old system this must be taken in for consideration. Ofcourse many techs will tell you other things like (video card, audio card ect.) Although this is not untrue, listen to this.

The "brain" of the system - the CPU - processess data from memory. This data is sent down the board, known as the bus. This bus operates at a certain frequency. Data travels down the bus from multiple places, each one pausing to wait for access. Now all this happens very fast, the point here being this, if your board is older, or the computer you are purchasing is of a slower bus speed the Cpu and other components may create a bottleneck in the system. This causes slow performance, and sometimes crashes.

One of the most important upgrades you can make for your computer are the following three Items.

1. Video Card - Even if your not using your PC to play games, video is still an issue. Your video card shares your computers memory,
If your PC's video card is not quite what it should be, it means your CPU is working a little harder than what it should.
(Usually I tell people to examine what the recomendations are for applications or hardware and double the amount)

2. Memory - Memory. More is better right? Yes. Usually more is better. Just make note to yourself that not all memory is created equal.
All memory has different access speeds. Usually this is where i will spend the few extra dollars. Just make sure you get the
right memory for your board. This would be the MHz the board operates on.

3 Sound Card - This usually comes into play where digital surround is necessary. If your card is that old, that certain applications/ programs are
having trouble running to the beat of just one drum, its time to upgrade. Newer cards are hardware accelerated 24bit.