Eliot Hunter (ID: 16002495) Assignment B Unit 02 Computer Systems
Components Good/Suitable Poor/Unsuitable
Aspects Aspects
AMD Sempron 3200+ 1.8GHz This AMD CPU has 64 bit The CPU is thirteen year old,
box socket: Socket AM2/Cache Computing architecture and It and it is not supported by
128KB can smoothly run Microsoft AMD anymore and the Cache
Office 365. isn’t brilliant.
1GB DDR2, 667 MHz RAM There is no good aspects to The RAM is NOT suitable for
the RAM as isn’t good enough. Microsoft Office 365 as 2GB of
64 bit RAM is required.
300 GB IDE HDD, 5400rpm The 300gb Hard Drive can be The platters inside the HDD
used perfectly fine for wouldn’t be read as quickly
Microsoft Office as it requires using the spindle since its only
3gb of dick space for the 5400rpm. Documents would
installation and you can store be loaded up slower.
plenty of documents.
USB 2 (4 External) It can be used to ‘hook’ up The data transfer rate isn’t as
your peripherals such as good as USB 3.0 but it’s still
Keyboard and Mouse. good enough for Microsoft
Office 365.
On-board LAN Card The On-board LAN enables you Nothing wrong with the On-
to connect to the internet so board LAN card.
you can connect to the
Microsoft Office and allows
you to save the documents to
either the hard drive or the
OneDrive 365.
On-board Nvidia Graphics The On-board graphics card There is nothing wrong with
will allow the user to be able on-board graphics as it’ll only
to connect the monitor so that be used for typing documents.
they are able to see the screen
that they are typing on.
DVD Drive/ Writer The DVD Drive/Writer is good However, the DVD
for people who want to be Drive/Writer is becoming
able to read and write disks outdated now because many
and store files on them as well people use USB Drives which
instead of the hard drive. can download the files faster
and in greater capacities.
Recommendations:
My first recommendation for the computer upgrades would be the processor. This isn’t necessary to
upgrade as the current one still works, however, the chosen processor which is the AMD Athlon X64
Dual Core 6000+. This processor has a higher cache memory (2 MB) than the current Sempron (128
KB) and this means that more data can be stored to the processor and therefore, making it faster to
access applications and work and more time effective. This processor also has a higher clock speed of
3.GHz meaning it can perform almost double the amount of clock speeds the other processor can.
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Components Good/Suitable Poor/Unsuitable
Aspects Aspects
AMD Sempron 3200+ 1.8GHz This AMD CPU has 64 bit The CPU is thirteen year old,
box socket: Socket AM2/Cache Computing architecture and It and it is not supported by
128KB can smoothly run Microsoft AMD anymore and the Cache
Office 365. isn’t brilliant.
1GB DDR2, 667 MHz RAM There is no good aspects to The RAM is NOT suitable for
the RAM as isn’t good enough. Microsoft Office 365 as 2GB of
64 bit RAM is required.
300 GB IDE HDD, 5400rpm The 300gb Hard Drive can be The platters inside the HDD
used perfectly fine for wouldn’t be read as quickly
Microsoft Office as it requires using the spindle since its only
3gb of dick space for the 5400rpm. Documents would
installation and you can store be loaded up slower.
plenty of documents.
USB 2 (4 External) It can be used to ‘hook’ up The data transfer rate isn’t as
your peripherals such as good as USB 3.0 but it’s still
Keyboard and Mouse. good enough for Microsoft
Office 365.
On-board LAN Card The On-board LAN enables you Nothing wrong with the On-
to connect to the internet so board LAN card.
you can connect to the
Microsoft Office and allows
you to save the documents to
either the hard drive or the
OneDrive 365.
On-board Nvidia Graphics The On-board graphics card There is nothing wrong with
will allow the user to be able on-board graphics as it’ll only
to connect the monitor so that be used for typing documents.
they are able to see the screen
that they are typing on.
DVD Drive/ Writer The DVD Drive/Writer is good However, the DVD
for people who want to be Drive/Writer is becoming
able to read and write disks outdated now because many
and store files on them as well people use USB Drives which
instead of the hard drive. can download the files faster
and in greater capacities.
Recommendations:
My first recommendation for the computer upgrades would be the processor. This isn’t necessary to
upgrade as the current one still works, however, the chosen processor which is the AMD Athlon X64
Dual Core 6000+. This processor has a higher cache memory (2 MB) than the current Sempron (128
KB) and this means that more data can be stored to the processor and therefore, making it faster to
access applications and work and more time effective. This processor also has a higher clock speed of
3.GHz meaning it can perform almost double the amount of clock speeds the other processor can.
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