The components of your PC must work together in order to bring you the fastest, most reliable performance. Here are the most important hardware factors to consider when speeding up your PC.
RAM: The most basic upgrade to make, RAM is cheap, effective, and easy to install. Your computer uses memory constantly, no matter what task you’re doing. If you want your computer to be able to run and switch between multiple tasks more quickly, then you need to upgrade your RAM.
Central Processing Unit (CPU): As the name suggests, the CPU is integral to all operations of your PC. Like RAM, upgrading the processing speed increases your performance across almost all applications, and can allow you to play games that you were previously unable to play.
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU): If you play a lot of PC games, then you may want to consider upgrading your graphics card. Similar to RAM, video games need to draw on memory in order to run smoothly as well. By doubling the memory of your device, for example, you can drastically improve the graphics of whatever game you are playing.
Hard drive speed: Sometimes, the hard drive can be the bottleneck of your system. To prevent this from happening to you, make sure that your hard drive is large enough to hold everything that you want to put on it (with room to spare). A full hard drive is a slow hard drive, and cramming too much data on a drive may even cause it to crash.
You can also find hard drives that access data faster. For example, rather than a standard 5,400rpm or 7,200rpm speed, consider up grading to a 10,000rpm drive. This will significantly speed up your boot times and increase your in-game performance.
Cool your PC: One of the most overlooked ways to speed up the hardware of your PC is to keep it sufficiently cool. When your PC is running a lot of intensive applications, the extra heat can cause all sorts of errors, and even permanently damage your devices. Consider adding some extra fans, or installing a liquid cooling system.