Eigenvector wrote:

Also consider, how fast is your computer's backplane? 100 Mbit, 200 Mbit??
That Gigabit connection doesn't seem too useful does it?

In data acquisition, a hard drive is much slower in comparison to RAM
computer memory and can be a system performance bottle-neck.

so the hard drive performance is also a factor

im not sure which type of drives write the fastest..

there is scsi, raid, usb, ultra wide scsi etc

now for memory, i know that a 64 bit os, will grab memory in double
chunks vs the 32 bit

i also know that AMD technology.. the processor communicates directly
with the ram oppossed to having to travel through the bus.. this will
speed up processing...(talking about ram..) I am sure ram will never be
a bottleneck for system performance..

if you exceed your RAM in usage, you find yourself working from the
swap file..(this is slo or limited to the Hard Drive performance.

all these things should be considered when upgrading pc components

depending on the system, one little upgrade could make a helluva
differnce.