The Price Of A Desktop Pc And What Affects Their Cost
The desktop PC comes in all shapes and sizes and all different kinds of configurations. Some can be as cheap as $300 and some can be as expensive as $7000.Now considering that there is such a vast difference in price it would probably be a good idea to understand how some a difference could occur.
First things first then as with most products available, the price of the PC will depend on who the manufacturer is. A Sony PC running Windows will cost a lot more than say a Packard Bell running Windows even if they had the same specifications, although I am not saying you don’t pay for what you get. If you can afford it, most of the time you should.
Secondly, the price will depend on the type of operating system (OS) the PC is running. This is more down to a demand issue with Windows systems being more sought after than the second best selling OS the Macintosh. I don’t mean that the Macintosh is a poorer OS if anything it is slightly better in terms of reliability and speed but the Macintosh has developed into more of a specific OS used by graphic designers and technical engineers for drawings for example.
The third and most important factor that influences the price of the PC is the technical specification. We will now discuss a few components that can change the cost greatly.
The Processor completes all the tasks asked of the PC. It is the most important part of the PC and most complex. The speed of a processor is measured in Hertz (Hz); the faster speed the processor can run at the faster it can complete tasks.
Secondly, the Graphics Card is the next component that most varies the price. Graphics cards decipher the data sent by the processor and convert it into images that are displayed on the monitor, such as a picture or the mouse cursor. Graphics cards need a lot of space (memory) to work out what the data means so they have this memory built onto the card. The more memory the card has the more expensive it can be (although this is not the only factor, you should research the graphics card a little bit more). The memory on the graphics card is measured in bytes currently the largest memory graphics cards contain 2046Mb of memory.
Lastly, the RAM, Random access memory, of the desktop PC will determine its price. The more RAM a PC has the more tasks it can give to the processor at one time, thus speeding up the PC in general. The RAM is measured in bytes also.
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