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1. Computer Hardware
and how it affects ‘performance’

2. Performance?
Speed. Limit. Balance.

3. Memory
Quality vs Quantity
Single vs Dual vs Triple Channel

4. Hard Disk
RPM vs Density
RAID-ing and SSD-s

5. CPU
Mhz (Ghz) Myth
AMD vs Intel

6. Other Components?

7. Motherboard
Quality. Features.

8. PSU
Quality. Quantity. Efficiency.

9. Graphics Card
Raw Power through Parallel
Processing

10. Core i7 975
Extreme
$999

11. NVIDIA GTX 295
Dual Chip Card in Quad SLI
$499 x 2 = $998

12. CPU - 70 GFlop
GPU - 3.6 Tflop
Advantage - > 50x
Advantage - > 50x
Advantage - > 50x

13. That’s all folks!