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The Speed of the 21st Century

CSEF · 2004 Electricity & Electronics

Cassidy A. Aarstad · Modoc Middle School, Alturas

Overview

Objectives/Goals My objective was if the amount of storage space and RAM effect the speed of a computer. I chose to do this project to find out if I could simply add more storage space and RAM instead of installing a new Processor. I hypothesised that More storage space and Ram will increase the speed of a computer. Methods/Materials Material:two 20GB Hard Drives with WindowsXP Operating system Installed two 60GB Hard Drives with windowsXP Installed two 128MB RAM two 512MB Ram two Identical computers without Hard Drives or Ram installed A Program to install that will take up much space on the Hard Drive A Time Watch with batteries Procedure: I built two computers with out Hard Drives or Ram installed then Alternated the Hard Drives and RAM listed above and timed how long the program took to install on the computer. Results When the computers had 60GB of storage spacde and 512MB of Ram, it computed faster than when it had 20GB of storage space and 128MB of Ram. Conclusions/Discussion I concluded that the More amount of storage space and memory(RAM) will increase the speed of a computer.

Summary statement

My project tests the speed of a computer with different amounts of storage space and memory

Help received

teacher advised and supervised my project

Competition history

  • CSEF 2004 Electricity & Electronics · Entry J0701

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