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PROCESSOR :

Now Intel 3rd Gen. Core Processors are available in the market both local and online. 3rd Gen. Core i3, i5, & i7 are the best Intel processors available in the current market. Should there be any question upon performance insist on only 3rd Gen. Core Processors. They are available in various frequency ranges of GHz. The higher the GHz the better. Same goes for the no. of cores of the processors.

RAM :

DDR3 is the current generation of RAM available in the market. They are normally available in the market in the frequency ranges of 1066 MHz, 1333MHz, 1600MHz, 1866MHz, 2133MHz. But 1333MHz and 1600MHz are more commonly available. The higher the frequency greater the performance. But before purchasing check whether the opted frequency range is supported both by the Motherboard and the Processor.

STORAGE :

Currently in the market SSD (Solid State Drives) are the higher performing ones than HDD (HardDisk) when it comes to storage memory. Yet SSDs are very costly and HDDs are very cheap. Should you require performance go for SSD, but if there is requirement of greater storage memory go for HDD. Our Advice is to use both storages in your computer, with the SSD the primary storage for Operating System (O.S.) and HDD for secondary storage of all your heavy data files (videos, photos, games, etc.). But in HDD look for RPM(Revolutions per Minute), some come at 5400RPM, some at 7200RPM and yet some come at 10000RPM. The higher the greater performance. Now HDD also have Cache Memory i.e. 8mb, 12mb, 16mb, etc. The higher it is the better. Yet also look for the SATA interface HDDs are using i.e. either they are using SATA 3GB/s or 6GB/s, because the later one is the best performer. Before purchasing check whether your motherboard supports SATA 6GB/s. Regarding SSDs look for the same SATA interface 6GB/s and check their read/write speeds which follow the same rule of performance of greater no.

MONITOR :

LED backlit LCD displays are the best available in the market. But by next year another type of display called SED ( Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) will be out which will be the latest and best performing display once out. Yet again when purchasing displays check for the Screen Resolution (e.g. 1920x1080 or 1080p) and Screen Refresh rate(e.g. 60Hz or 120Hz). The higher the both figures the better. Don't just grab a big display without appropriate screen resolution and refresh rate, i.e. don't grab a display just because it says HD display. It may be the worst if its size is too large for the HD resolution. So always check for PIXEL Density (PPI) between displays of same sizes.

Here is a way to count the pixel density(PPI):

Theoretically, PPI can be calculated from knowing the diagonal size of the screen in inches and the resolution in pixels (width and height). This can be done in two steps:

1. Calculate diagonal resolution in pixels using the Pythagorean Theorem:

2. Calculate PPI:

where

•  is diagonal resolution in pixels,
•  is width resolution in pixels,
•  is height resolution in pixels and
•  is diagonal size in inches. (This is the number advertised as the size of the display.)

GRAPHICS CARD :

It's a necessity now a days, be it for Gaming, Video and Picture Editing, Media Coding, Parallel Processing, connecting multiple displays, etc. It all depends upon the uses of the computer to decide which one is the best performing. Mainly users buy graphics cards for Gaming purposes and for that ATI and NVIDIA are the best in the market, with GDDR5 memeory the latest in the market.  There are various memory interfaces like 64-Bit, 128-Bit, 192-Bit, 256-Bit, etc. Remember the higher the better and the greater the power consumption. So if power consumption is the main factor decide accordingly a balance between performance and power consumption. Now graphics cards latest in the markets come with the PCI 2.0 or PCI 3.0 interface. The later provides more memeory bandwidth, hence more performance. But before purchasing check that your motherboard supports it. Now these also come with different memory sizes like 512mb, 1gb, 2gb, etc. but greater size doesn't necessarily mean greater performance, but greater capacity. Now both ATI and NVIDIA are good. NVIDIAs are little costlier than their ATI counter-parts, but provide some extra features like PhysX (physics calculation and processing through graphics card). NVIDIA and ATI both support parallel processing with CUDA for Nvidia and APP for ATI, but CUDA applications are more popular. Using CUDA video conversion becomes approx 10x times faster than normal. Now in the market NVIDIA Geforce 6xx series is the latest, while in ATI Radeon 7xxx series is the latest. While purchasing look for support of DirectX 11 (or better 11.1) support and OpenGL 4.2 support.

If Graphics Card is required for proffesional uses like cinematography, photo editing, graphic designing, movie making and if there is the requirement of using ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE than NVIDIA QUADRO series graphics cards provide unmatched performance. NVIDIA QUADRO K5000 is the latest in the market.

Graphics Cards is a very vast category and selecting one greatly depends upon ones uses of the computer. Now-a-days Intel Core processors are also coming with great integrated graphics which can compete with the above mentioned graphics cards in the entry level category. Intel is also giving parallel processing support from 2nd Gen. Core processors onwards named INTEL QUICKSYNC it greatly speeds up video transcoding works. Intel graphics are very low power consuming. So decide accordingly which to decide according to your uses. If more information required feel free to contact through ADVICE REQUEST FORM page.