Upgrading a Current Computer System

The current computer system specifications are this:

- AMD Athlon X2 4600+ 2.4GHz (Socket AM2)
- Retail- AMD Athlon X2 Approved CPU Cooler
- Asus Vintage V3-M2V890 Barebones System
- Crucial 2GB PC2-5300C4 Dual Channel Kit (2x1024MB)
- Western Digital 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache- HP RM345i 16x DVD-ROM (Black)
- On-Board VIA Graphics
- On-Board 5.1 Audio- Integrated Gigabit LAN

The upgraded system is this:

- AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.00GHz Dual Core CPU
- AMD approved cooler
- Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- Award winning OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 CAS4 (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit
- 500GB Western Digital Enterprise 16MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Card
- Samsung 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black)
- Black Sony Floppy Drive
- Antec 650W Next Generation Power Supply

From the starting system to the upgraded system, there is a huge difference in performance. For a start i have upgraded the processor into a 3GHz dual core cpu instead of a single core. It also has an approved AMD cpu cooler as well which will help to keep the system running cool and running smoothly. It has a massively upgraded motherboard which supports DDR2 ram which is much faster than DDR ram. This will also help massively in computer performance. It has a larger hard disk so that more things can be installed and stored on the machine. It has a high powered graphics card in the machine which will also help drastically improve the performance of the computer. Having a built in graphics card is not very good and usually they are very slow. It also has a DVD drive in the computer instead of nothing. This is good so that you can install programs and use cd's to transfer data. It does have a floppy drive but this has been superseeded by every other data transfer and so doesn't really contribute to increased performance. It also has a powerful power supply so that the parts in the computer are powered and can be upgraded if you wanted to.