In general, what makes a computer slow? Considering its not any form of malware or having too many stuff installed.
By slow I mean, e.g., when youre playing a game and it takes a long time to switch to another window.
When I hear about it, RAM and processor are the first things that come to my mind, just from what I can remember people saying (I think?), but what could also be the reason for this? What needs to be upgraded to improve that? And can it improve when you upgrade only one of the components, or would you need to upgrade more than just one (could one of them be stopping the other one)?
Yes, it may be a total newbie question... Im a total newbie, upgrading my computer for the first time and I would like to understand how it works, at least a bit of it.
By slow I mean, e.g., when youre playing a game and it takes a long time to switch to another window.
When I hear about it, RAM and processor are the first things that come to my mind, just from what I can remember people saying (I think?), but what could also be the reason for this? What needs to be upgraded to improve that? And can it improve when you upgrade only one of the components, or would you need to upgrade more than just one (could one of them be stopping the other one)?
Yes, it may be a total newbie question... Im a total newbie, upgrading my computer for the first time and I would like to understand how it works, at least a bit of it.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel 2GHz
- Motherboard
- Intel P35
- Memory
- 2 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Radeon HD5670