Factors+Affecting+Performance+Questions

1. What is meant by a computer's word length?

2. I have a computer that has twice the word size of another computer. Explain why this computer will not be working at twice the speed?

3. Why is it impossible for the user to change the speed of access and word size of main memory?

4. How can you generally improve system performance with respect to memory?

5. If you were a computer manufacturer how could you improve the overall performance of your computer in relation to main memory, cache memory and registers ?

6. Why do peripherals reduce the overall system performance ?

7.What can be done to combat the reduced performance created by peripherals ?

8. How much faster is Firewire 800 than USB 2.0?