how to make a really fast computer?

Question

i have a homework. the homework is to write about how to make my computer go reaaaalllyy fast. the length is about 3 or 4 pages.
what should i write in it? or where can i find useful informations?

Answer 1

Just print out my game computer building guide and use it:

http://www.hollandcomputerrepair.com/computerforum/showthread.php?t=686

Answer 2

Depends what it would be used for. An ultra-fast super computer built to help predict the weather would probably not be very good for playing HALO 3 [or insert another CPU/GPU intensive software here].



The way to build a really fast personal computer is to have the following:

1) Lots of money:This will allow you to buy the rest of the list.

2) Very fast CPU. Intel and AMD seems the be the forerunners. Find out what is the fastest model out now and use it.

3) Very fast RAM and lots of it.

4) Very fast Graphics cards which supports SLI so that you can add multiple cards to one machine.

5) A forgiving motherboard to house all of this

6) A powerful enough power supply unit (PSU) to power all of this.

7) Some system to keep the whole things cool. Big fans are noisy and water systems have, in my experience, a tendency of leaking and destroying all items from points 2,3,4,5 leading to spending more of item 1.



If you mean 'go' as in 'move' really fast then you have to ask yourself if you need your PC to accelerate past its terminal velocity or not. If not then just throw it off a really high place. Otherwise you will need to help it with some form of propulsion. I suggest rockets or some sorts. Your 'lots of money' from item 1 will help here too.

Answer 3

Put the computer on roller skates and attach jet engines?





If you are wanting to increase the speed of an existing computer, here are the standard things to try:



1) Check for spyware. Run both Ad-aware Personal http://lavasoft.com and Skybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html) to remove any spyware. Run both as one may caught something the other missing. Then go to microsoft.com and download Defender to protect against future infections. All three programs are free.



2) Check that you have a least 10% of your hard drive free. Go to My Computer and right click on the Local Drive (C:). Look at the properties. If it has less that 10% free space, you will need to delete some files, or move them off the hard drive and on to a CD or DVD. Start by running the disk cleanup, which will remove temporary and other unneeded files. Go to Start, then All Programs, then System Tools and click the Disk Cleanup icon.



3) Run the msconfig utility. Go to Start, then Run and type in: msconfig

Go to the startup tab

You will see a list of all the programs that are loaded when your computer starts up. Uncheck any that you do not have to have. (Usually you can uncheck them all). If you decide you to need one, you can go back and recheck it.



4) Defrag the hard drive. Go into My Computer and right click on the Local Drive (C:). Select Properties and go into the Tools tab. Click the Defragment Now button to start the defrag program. If you have not defrag recently (or never) it may take several hours for the program to complete.



5) If you have extra money, invest in additional RAM memory for your computer. Usually the number one thing that slows a computer is running out of memory. This forces the computer to move some of its running programs or data to a swap files on the hard drive, which is much slower than RAM memory. Every time it has to move something in or outof the swap file, it cause the computer to drag.

Answer 4

There are many approaches to this problem

1)Via hardware get powerful hardware component

2)Via software get an Advance OS

Windows is not designed to be fast It is designed to be user friendly

This a big topic because a very fast system has a lot of features that speed it up

examples are, advance processor scheduler

excellent prefetch mechanisms

Good malloc (memory allocator)

Just this topic will fill more than 5 pages if you go indepth and do case studies on UNIX system

3)Via overworking your components i.e overclocking make your hardware component go faster than what Intel/AMD set it

There is no single topic because computer is essentially a system consisting of many components to speed it up many factors has to be considered

I learnt this after installing BSD UNIX on my system the amount of optimization to make it a fast system

Google is your friend if you want to do a proper report be prepared to write many pages otherwise your report will not be that impressive

Answer 5

First and for most, you need money :)

Then read articles on Tomshardware.com



They have Game PC marathon right now. Hope it may help you.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/system-builder-marathon,1966.html

Answer 6

disable all the services or programs in your computer that you are not using ..