So you are purchasing a desktop, there are many things you need to consider when selecting a desktop.  If you don’t know what you are buying you need to do a little research and read some guides.

 First thing to think about is processors,  there are many that are sold cheap. AMD Duron, Sempron, Intel Celeron are the slower of the CPU or processors. You are most likely to find these on the shelf’s of Best Buy, Circuit City, ect…

 There is a huge difference between these cheap processors and a high grade or business platform CPU.  If you’re looking for a fast PC you need to consider a Pentium 4 or a AMD 64 Bit.  You will see a huge speed increase just using these processors.

 The difference is how fast everything will flow within the computer. This is the first part that must not be a bottle neck.

 Next best bang for the buck is memory. Think of this as a pool to hold Running programs This is not to be confused with storage for the hard drive.

 Anything running is using memory. Windows, instant messengers, firewall, anti-virus,  office programs, and many background programs that you don’t think of running.

 Windows , firewall, and anti-virus will easly use 256Mb of memory without anything else running !  That’s why memory is important !!  Minimum memory should be 512Mb and if you’re going to edit photos, burn DVD’s you should really think of 1Gb of memory.

 Next best speed trick is the hard drive. No matter how fast the processor and memory are, we all wait on the data to come from the hard drive. This will boost the speed at a noticeable difference.

 Most cheap store bought hard drives are 5400 RPM, approx 75Mb a second data output. Next is a more common 7200 RPM hard drive at 100Mb a second. And the best bang for the buck is 10,000 RPM with a killer 150Mb a second transfer.  This is the most noticeable speed for upgrades.

 Please feel free to ask whatever questions you have and please take time to look in my store. I sell only Intel Pentium 4 processors and business platforms. These are the best PC to work on.

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