Computer Hardware

What’s the best and fastest PC to buy

Lots to choose from, but where to start, its all a bit confusing really, well, relax you are in good hands, with 26 years commercial IT&T experience let me summarise as outlined below what you should be looking for in regards to specifying your new rig, for a few dollars more you will have the best and fastest PC around, a real pleasure to work with.

Beware, if you purchase a rig with this configuration and specification, you may well spend more time in front of your PC as it will be such a pleasure to work with ie fast and wonderfully displayed using a high definition 30 inch display, drool away and read on my friends.

What’s the fastest PC memory available

DDR3 is the current (April 2010) and fastest PC memory available with speed ranges from 800 – 1600 & 2000mhz, buy the fastest one you can get i.e. the 1600 or 2000mhz chip.

How Much Memory to get

The more the better is the key, so buy  4, 6 or even 8 gig of 1600 or 2000mhz DDR3 memory, this will do the job and do it well.

If you are using windows 7 as your operating system you are in luck as it will automatically adjust to maximise its use, how it does this is by pre-loading the most common bits and pierces into memory so that when its used it will be pretty much instantaneously launched i.e. no lag time.

Note that you will need to check with your PC shop or review you PC motherboard manual to ensure that you can install DDR3 memory i.e. if you have an old PC and you want to upgrade it then it may only use DDR2 or some such memory.

What’s the fastest computer chip available

The Intel i7 chip is pretty much the fastest around, this chip can manage itself so that it ramps up its internal voltage as more power is required and when not under load it reduces it power consumption and thus its heat load, a smart little chip to be sure.  The i7 chip comes in various models ranging from the 860 – 975 series.

The question is, which chip you buy, generally speaking, the faster the chip, the more expensive it will be, so buy something within the i7 range and you will be with the top performers.

Ok, so far we are leaning towards the Intel chip, some would say I am bias, so lets see what the other guys have, in particular AMD, now AMD don’t have a serious contender to the i7 as yet but they will surely pull a rabbit out the hat as they always do and the rumour mill indicates that they are planning on releasing a six core desktop process this year (2010) which has the codename Theban but no news as yet so keep your ear open and have a chat to your PC supplier as they may well be able to help out.