Unit 2 - M3 & D2

M3

Evaluate the performance of a PC

The PC I am going to evaluate is the Novabench system, in the picture below is the score of what the system got.

 The score for the RAM tells you how much information it can hold at one current time this pc received an average score for the ram due to it only having 6gb. The RAM on this computer can be improved by simply adding more RAM this system has 6GB RAM a good way to improve that would be to remove the 6GB and add two 8GB totalling in 16GB of ram, doing this would allow the computer to  hold more programs at any one time.

The score for the cpu tells you how fast the processor is and how many calculations it makes per seconds so in this case the computer has a very powerful processor this is reflected in the scores as it scored 796 overall. The processor score can be improved with two methods firstly by overclocking and secondly by installing a more powerful processor however this is not necessary as this computer already has a top of the range i7. Doing this would make improve the all-around speed of the computer.

The score for the GPU shows how powerful the gpu is and as you can see from these scores this pc received a very high score for the gpu, this means it has a high quality gpu. To improve the gpu you could consider removing the current gpu’s and adding 2 NVidia and gtx 690’s which will drastically improve the graphics performance as these are the highest quality graphics cards on the market and deliver the best graphics performance available. 

D2

 There are a few things that I think could improve the performance of the computer system. One of them is that they could increase internal speed of microprocessor; this is an increase in the frequency of the clock. This can increase the speed of data processing, but this is will not work without increasing the number of information transferred on a given lapse of time.  Also they could modify the external peripherals. This will increase the performances towards outside, the processors are definitely faster than the peripherals, so this would help a lot I think. Another improvement I can think of is to Increase data bus and address bus speed. This will make it easier to bring more instructions and data to be treated with the processor over a short period of time, so it will mean that there is less waiting.