You may not know much or even care about how your memory module works with your Mac or PC and to be fair you may not need to but what you do need to know is computer memory is a vital component to making your computer run not only more smoothly but also in many cases a lot faster.
The faster a computer or CPU can access the information by keeping memory in a cache, the quicker the machine actually is and will perform, the problem is however is if you computer or laptop was a budget buy or is a year or two old then you may simply not have enough to run your computer properly.
Lack of system memory is one of the prime causes of slow computers and it is also a very cost effective upgrade
PC memory upgrades are pretty simple to do and with the hot summer months now with us this is an ideal time to have a memory upgrade completed at the same time as you are having your system maintained to ensure it is free from the killer dust that causes many Pc’s to overheat.
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Slow computers can be caused by many different factors but in many cases it may be down to a lack of simple maintenance. Over time programs are loaded and unloaded, hard disks get fragmented and in the age of spyware many systems are totally bogged down with adware, malware and spyware and in the cases root infestations which enable somebody else to control a PC in the background.
A slow computer can can cost business hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds a year depending on the role of the user due to the fact that everything they do on their PC can take 2,3 or even 10 times longer. Whilst this may not seem a problem on the face of it, if only 10 seconds are wasted every time somebody needs to open a file over the course of a year this soon mounts up.
Equally lack of maintenance can cause systems to overheat which then leads to system failure or perhaps even the need for data recovery which is the last thing you need.
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With the summer on the way (and hopefully this year will be nice and warm) its time to look at your computer and perhaps give it a good internal clean.
Even in the cleanest environment computers do draw in a lot of dust and over time this dust starts to clog up your PC. Over time your processor heatsink will gradually get totally clogged as will the graphics card fan.
Summer tends to see the most problems with hardware failures as the combination of dust and the increase in ambient temperatures cause the internal temperature of your computer to rise well above normal levels, which in turn puts a strain on system components that lead to failure.
One of the worse components that is affected by the heat is of course your computers hard drive and an increase in temperature can cause hard drive degradation and subsequently data loss requiring data recovery.
If your computer has not been cleaned for quite a while or is starting to get hot already we’ll be able to carry out some computer maintenance on your PC to ensure you stand less chance of your system overheating in the warmer summer months.
