Lots of things effect computer performance; data transfer rates, capacity, etc.
Different types of RAM can have a big impact on the performance of a computer system. Data has to be moved in and out of RAM, the quicker this data can be accessed and moved, the faster the processor can get to processing it.
The speed of the CPU is also known as the clock speed of the CPU. The clock speed of the CPU is the frequency of which the processor executes instructions or the frequency by which data is processed by the CPU. If the clock speed of the CPU is fast then the performance of the computer will be affected positively, in other words the computer will carry out processing functions at a faster pace.
Multi-tasking tends to slow down the performance of the computer because memory is used to support more than one application compared to when one application has all the memory to itself. This means that the more applications that are running the slower the computer will perform.
Measured in bits, the bandwidth determines how much information the processor can process in one instruction. If you were to compare data flow to the flow of traffic on a highway, then clock speed would be the speed limit, and bandwidth would be the number of lanes on the highway.
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