"sosessyithurts" wrote in message
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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.


But you'll never be faster than the backplane speed - EVER. That's the
limiting factor and currently only PCI-X 16 (I think that's the big one)
offers Gigabit performance. There's nothing out there that fast.

The biggest factor in performance is HOW YOU USE THE COMPUTER. It doesn't
matter how fast your HD is, how much RAM you have, how many bits your CPU
is, if all you do is surf or type docs then who the hell cares? I know this
very well as I design, maintain, and help run a rather large
high-performance data center. The end-user and the application determines
performance more than anything inside that box/es.

That's why I'm rather blase about gigabit network to the web - all it means
is more junky web pages and more spam and pop-ups per session for me. I
sure won't be typing at gigabit speed.