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...Our services include upgrades,repairs,custom builds,hardware instalation,trouble shooting,virus removal,spyware removal,cleanups to speed up your pc and many more computer related services. Drop off service. Just bring your pc on the way to work or when you have time. Drop it off. When its done come and pick it up. We are located on the border of Clermont and Groveland.

...If you need your computer upgraded. You only need to tell us what you need upgraded and if you have any special prefrences such as what brand you prefer to use or how much your looking to spend on the parts. If your not sure... We can give you great advice. Were constantly researching the new products and reading all the tech notes on them so we know what works and what does'nt. We'll get the parts and install them for you.

...By now your probably wondering about pricing. There are a few reasons why you don't see prices anywhere on this site. One reason is that every job is different. Some take longer and some are really quick. Some are also very difficult and tricky. To make a list of prices that would even cover half these topics would take up a few pages. Another reason is that the prices on computer parts are constantly changing or I should say droping. What may have cost you 100.00 this month may only cost 50.00 next month. A good way to judge prices of computer parts is by how up to date the part is or how current its technology is. Example a 2.5 gig hardrive would have costed you maybe 300.00 last year but now you can get one for less than 150.00. Ask yourself how much power do I need. If your not sure. Contact us and we'll give you some advice. The 2 things I can tell you about price is that if you contact us and describe what needs to be done we can give you a price and second is what makes us different from the rest.....

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Tips on Purchasing New Hardware

Introduction

Many users rely on brand names and on reviews when purchasing new computer devices. While relying on reviews is a good thing to do, it's important to have some knowledge on what makes certain devices faster than others, so that you can come to your own conclusions, and decide what's best for you.

The purpose of this article is to try to give you a few tips on what specifications should be observed when purchasing new hardware components, so that you will be able to purchase high quality products and get the most bang for your buck. The tips presented here may not be the only things to look for in a device, but at least they're a good start.

CPU

Buying a CPU is a difficult task due to the wide range of options. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that an Intel CPU is more compatible or more stable than others. This is not true. While Intel does make good CPUs, so do other companies like AMD. If you're interested in a CPU, the first thing to look for is its performance in business (usually benchmarks like Winstone give you that information) and multimedia/gaming (in that case, try looking at the frames per second benchmarks that come with many first person games).

The second thing to look for is the CPU's overclockability. The more overclockable a CPU is, the better its price/performance ratio. But look at the average overclockability, rather than the maximum amount reached by a certain user. Then, measure this overclockability against the CPU price. Sometimes you may have, for example, two CPUs that perform about the same, one is rated 300Mhz and the other one, 400Mhz. The 400Mhz unit will probably be more expensive. But sometimes it may happen that both overclock to about the same speed, for example, around 450Mhz. In this particular example, the 300Mhz CPU in question has a better price/performance ratio.

Motherboard

After you have decided which CPU you will be using, then it's time to choose a motherboard. Even if you intend to upgrade it in a near future, the trick is to always try to purchase a motherboard that appears to have the best upgradeability. The variety of CPU bus options is the first thing to look for. The wider the range of CPU bus options, the easier it will be to overclock your CPU. It's very important to have many CPU bus options if you want to maximize your CPU's performance, especially if your CPU doesn't allow you to change its multipliers. Another important thing to look for are the voltage options. Try to get the motherboard with the greater amount of them. That's another key factor for overclocking. Stay away from motherboards that don't allow you to change your CPU voltage, in case you are looking for the best overclocking results. Pseudo-sync memory bus is a good feature to look for, because it allows you to use a faster CPU bus without having to purchase faster memory DIMMs.

As far as performance is concerned, the best thing to do is to find out the motherboard's chipset. The chipset is the part of the motherboard which is mostly responsible for its performance. If you're trying to find out if a certain motherboard is fast but you don't have any benchmarks of it, try to look at the scores of motherboards with the same chipset, the performance won't be much different from those.

If the type of motherboard you intend to buy has a built-in L2 cache, try to look for the one with the greater amount of cache. The price difference usually isn't very high, but it can make quite a difference in performance. It's equally important to find out how much memory your motherboard can cache. Because if you exceed the maximum amount of cacheable memory, it will run much slower. Make sure that the maximum amount of cacheable memory is big enough to handle some of your future RAM upgrades. And finally, the motherboard design is always crucial. Whenever it's possible, prefer the ATX motherboards, because they tend to have a much better design than the AT ones. A good number of PCI slots is good, so that you can accomodate all your cards, and a greater amount of DIMM slots is also a plus.

Hard Disk

When buying a new HDD, many people only take in consideration its size. But HDDs may also differ in terms of speed. Since the HDD is one of the major bottlenecks as far as the computer's overall performance is concerned, it's extremely important to have a fast HDD if you want to have a fast computer. Even if the size of your current HDD fits your needs, a HDD upgrade can give you a good performance boost. When searching for a new HDD, try to look for it's access time (usually measured in ms). It's like a summary of the HDD's performance. The faster the HDD is, the smaller its access time.Also, make sure to check out how much cache it has, and how many rotations per minute it performs (RPM). In both cases, the bigger, the better. If you have some extra money to spend, SCSI HDDs are much faster than the regular IDE ones, but they're usually much more expensive as well, and require a SCSI controller card, which you have to purchase separatedly. They're definetly not the best bang for the buck, but if you're looking for top performance, then they can't be beaten.

Memory

There's not much to observe when purchasing more memory. The problem with the memory is that they are usually the limiting factor when overclocking the CPU bus. The lower the memory's access time, the higher the CPU bus it will support. On the other hand, quality is also very important. High-quality memories have a better tolerance for higher CPU bus frequencies. And, as far as quality is concerned (at least for memories), brand names are very important. For example, I have a 10ns SDRAM DIMM that runs fine at 103Mhz, while most 10ns SDRAM DIMMs can't even reach 100Mhz.

Don't be afraid to be extravant when picking the size of the memory, because the more memory you have, the less accesses Windows will be making to its swap file (ie. the virtual memory). The swap file is much slower than the regular memory, so it's very important to make the least number of accesses to it as possible.

Video Card

Most people only care about the 3D performance of video cards, and forget that there are other important factors as well. Keep in mind that most of the time in which you're in front of your computer, you're using a 2D environment (ie. Windows), so the 2D performance of a video card is something to consider. If you have a bigger monitor, such as a 21" one, make sure that your video card supports the resolution you're expecting to use, at a comfortable refresh rate (ie. 75Hz or higher), and with at least 16-bit colors.

Also, unlike motherboards, the performance difference between two video cards using the same chipset may vary a lot, because other factors, such as the RAMDAC, the quality of the RAM used in the card and the frequency at which the chipset is running are important in the card's performance. This is another item in which brand names are usually the best performers.

Keep in mind that AGP cards are better than PCI ones (if the rest is the same), because the data bandwidth of the AGP slot is greater, and also because the AGP bus is twice as fast as the PCI one.

Before you buy a new video card, make sure that it has a good image quality. Some cards sacrifice the image quality a lot, in order to achieve greater scores. Stay away from them. And make sure to look at the card's extras, such as TV IN/OUT, MPEG hardware decoder, etc, before making your decision.

Final Comments

It's not easy to decide which components to buy for your new computer in case you don't have much hardware knowledge, but if you follow most of the advice described in this article, you can be sure that you'll end up with a good deal, because the 5 items described above are the most important ones in a computer's performance.