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As you consider computer hardware and software, what hardware element do you think impact software performance the most?
Every hardware present inside a CPU cabinet affects the software performance directly or indirectly at some point but the hardware parts which impact the performance the most are CPU(Processor), RAM, HHD/SSD.
Explanation:
CPU is the main processing unit which can compute. For example a 3Ghz processor can compute 3 thousand millions instructions per second.
RAM a software needs certain files to be loaded inside the primary memory which is RAM so that whenever that data is required it can quickly fetch and execute it. So a larger RAM will ensure that the file swapping is lag free.
HHD/SSD plays a vital role because the data is basically loaded into RAM from secondary memory which is hardisk. So if the harddisk read/write speed is huge, it would really help the software to read and write data very efficiently.
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