In the very beginning of the new year 2015, I decided to present you the 2nd part of my posts series, "Assemble Your PC Yourself" with the best wishes for new year 2015.
The 2nd most sensitive thing you have to decide is choosing the motherboard and RAM(there are some details you have to check in processor such as cache memory.but in recent processors are equipped with a good capacity of cache memory for processors depending on its processing capacity.).In here, I am not going to discuss more on motherboards, but in my point of view, I recommend the motherboards from the same processor manufacturer.That means i recommend INTEL motherboards(not the motherboards which are made using INTEL Chipset.) for Intel Processors.
Next, and one of most sensitive thing which can directly effect your computers speed is RAM.(Random Access Memory.) This kind of memory is versatile.When it loses electricity, all the details in RAM will be deleted.RAM is a kind of temporary memory.I will take an example to explain this thing.
Think that you are writing a letter using a word processing software and before you save the file, the electricity goes. Now you are unable to take the document back because you was working in RAM and RAM lost the electricity.(This is why we need a hard disk and I will discuss on this on next post.)
So whats the use of RAM?
picture from : http://www.karbosguide.com/books/pcarchitecture/images/976.png
RAM is the source(a kind of) which gives data to processor to process and after process it takes back.Above picture will explain what is the duty of RAM. since the capacity of cache memory is very low, it just only keeps the most frequently data to be process. but we know when we do some work, the capacity is of the file exceeds the capacity of cache. so RAM keeps the data which are needed to process just after process after processing data in cache and feeds data to cache.
So, what should I lookup before select the RAM? since RAM is situated on mother board, there is a data bus which connects RAM and processor. This data bus has a specified speed it can transfer data.Some of speeds are 766KB/s, 1033KB/s, 1333KB/s, 1600KB/s. As the size of this value increases, the speed becomes up.So when you buy the RAM, you have to check the maximum data bus speed processor supports.(for INTEL, you can check it from the here.) So to take the best performance of your PC, it should match these speeds.
Processor supported bus speed = Motherboard bus speed = RAM speed MATCHING(100%)
Processor supported bus speed = Motherboard bus speed < RAM speed MATCHING(but wasting sources of RAM)
Processor supported bus speed = Motherboard bus speed > RAM speed MATCHING(but wasting sources of Processor and motherboard)
Like this way, if these 3 things does not match their own data bus speeds, it makes wasting of sources in somewhere.The best thing is to make your PC
Processor supported bus speed = Motherboard bus speed = RAM speed.
What should be the size of RAM of your PC?
The best capacity of RAM for a PC is the maximum size which supported by the Processor and Motherboard.Sometimes there are some situations which processor supports somewhat bigger capacity than motherboard support.In this case the maximum size you can have is the maximum RAM supported size in motherboard.
but for ordinary uses of a PC, 4GB RAM would be enough.(averagely.)but for gamers, video editors ..etc the best thing is having maximum capacity of RAM.
So I will stop here and thanks for reading my blog.Its nice to know your ideas on my posts, blog. you can comment your ideas.
I am Dilanka Madhawa an undergraduate in Computer Science at University College Dublin, Ireland. From Down South, Galle, Sri Lanka. Interested in mobile and computer technologies, apps and lots of technical stuffs. This is a result of my interests and when I have some time to write, I post here. Thanks for coming. :)
Great work mate .keep up
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