What Parts and Components are in YOUR Computer?

Do you know what parts and components are in YOUR computer? The brand, model, and serial number? Let me show you an easy way to find out! What’s up everybody? It’s Eddie Z here from EZ Trading Computers, and you’re watching Trading Computer Secrets.

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In this video, I want to show you a very neat app to find out exactly what brand and model of components are inside your current computer. All right, so this is a really cool app I recently discovered that shows you every single component inside your computer, every brand, every model number of every single component.

Download Speccy App

Get it from the Microsoft Store. That is the version to use — it installs through Windows itself, so there is no installer to click through and nothing bundled alongside it, and it keeps itself updated. It is called Speccy because we are going to look up the specs of your computer. Kind of a fun name. Open the link, click Get, and Windows does the rest. When it has finished, open Speccy and maximize the window. There is nothing to configure.

SUMMARY OF COMPUTER PARTS & COMPONENTS

Let’s take a look at what it tells us. So we are on the summary page. These are all the different pages of information that you have. So we’re here on the summary page and you can see I’m running Windows 10 Home 64-bit. This computer… this is one of my old machines. I just use this to make videos. This has an Intel core i7-4790K running at 4 GHz, it says. My RAM, I have 16 GB of RAM DDR3. We’re on DDR4… it’s the most advanced now, so you can see this is an older machine. My motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1. My graphics cards and my graphics… I’m using model 2752… those are my monitors. This machine has two monitors that are known as model 2752. These are like a very generic monitor I had laying around the office. Most of the monitors we recommend are either Acer or Asus. In many cases you’ll see… it’ll say Asus model XYZ123, or Acer model VH247GP, something like that under graphics. And it should also tell you what video card you have. This has an Nvidia G-Force GTX 750… this particular machine. For storage devices, I have a 232 GB Crucial solid state hard drive, and I have a 2 TB Western Digital My Passport. I have two CD-ROM devices on here. And I’m also using a Logitech PRO-X Gaming Headset plugged into the audio. So you can see it tells you what brand of component you have, what model. For example, like the drive here… what model of drive I have. So that’s a really cool summary right out of the gate. What we want to make note of, right here, is that I have the Intel i7-4790. You might want to write down your processor as well. I’m going to show you something pretty neat in a few minutes. Now here we get more into the detail. This was a summary page.

OPERATING SYSTEM

I’m clicking on Operating System. What this is telling me is I’m running Windows 10… it’s desktop… what date it was installed on this machine… the serial number of Windows. That’s sometimes a good thing to have. So if you ever have an issue with Windows and you’re already a customer of EZ Trading Computers and you’re having trouble with Windows, it’s nice to have the serial number. It should be located on a sticker on the top or the rear of your machine. But… this might be an important thing to write down… is your serial number of Windows, and just put it in a safe place. It tells me all of the settings inside of Windows. My security center… my update is set to auto update, but to notify before downloading and installing. Windows Defender is enabled… Antivirus… All kinds of neat stuff you can go through at your own leisure.

CPU

Next one here is CPU. Now this one is pretty interesting because it tells me this is a 4-core processor with 8 threads. What 8 threads means is that Intel has a special program that runs on the processor. It’s called hyper-threading. And what that does is make this four core processor look like an eight core processor. And as a trader that usually really helps your trading applications run more efficiently. Intel has that built in. AMD has it now, too. What I want to bring your attention to down here… is this actually showing my clock speed of each core in real-time. So this machine, even though this processor, it says it’s 4.0 GHz, I have this processor boosted up to 4.4 GHz… 4.399.

RAM

Here we have the RAM. It tells me I have a total of four memory slots, and I’m only using two of them. So I could actually upgrade the memory with two more RAM modules. It tells me the type of RAM. This tells me the total amount of RAM I have on the machine. 16,384 bytes is the same as 16 GB… tells me the RAM frequency. So if I was going to upgrade it, I got to make sure to match this RAM frequency. It tells me how much memory I’m using right now. I’m using almost 40% of the memory, and I have available about 9.6 GB.

MOTHERBOARD

The next one here on the left is the motherboard. And as I said earlier, it’s an ASUS Sabertooth Z97. It tells me what version of the bios that I’m running… it tells me the voltage. A lot of this stuff you don’t really need to know, but if you wanted to get into the real nitty-gritty of the machine, you could look at every single spec.

GRAPHICS

I click on Graphics. It shows me the two monitors that I have running. It shows me what resolution I have them set to. And down here it tells me about my graphics card. Now this machine only has one graphics card, but if I had multiple graphics cards in here, it would list both of them. It also tells me I’m running at about 35 degrees. If, by the way, you’re on CPU, it also tells you your core temperature. If you ever saw these temperatures above 65 degrees Celsius, like you’re running 75, 80, 85, 90 degrees Celsius, that’s a kind of a high level. That’s a dangerous level to run your CPU, and you’re going to start overheating, and you don’t want to burn out the CPU. Call your computer’s tech support, and find out why that’s happening.

OPTICAL DRIVES

The next one is Optical Drives… tells me what type of optical drives I have. So this machine has a DVD writer and it also has a Blu-ray Disc reader. Audio…I have the Logitech PRO-X Gaming Headset here. There’s also audio built into my video card. And then the motherboard, the Realtek High Definition audio is built into the motherboard.

PLAYBACK DEVICES

Playback Devices… I have speakers, which is this headset that I’m wearing. And then there’s also a speaker built into my monitors, little tiny speakers.

RECORDING DEVICES

Recording Devices, obviously my headset. And then if you click on Peripherals, it tells you about what kind of mice you have hooked up… what kind of printer you have hooked up. Here’s my headset again. Here’s are all the things that are plugged into the machine… external devices essentially.

NETWORK

And then on the Network it tells me about my current network. This particular machine I have plugged into both Xfinity and into AT&T Gigablast. So I actually have two different Internet connections on this machine.

CPU Benchmark Score

All right, so going back to the summary, I know I have the Intel core i7-4790K. And even though it says 4 GHz, I’m running 4.3 or 4.4. I’m just going to copy this. Then I want you to go to eztradingcomputers.net… that’s my website. So here’s our website. Let me close this here. Go ahead and click on FAQ > Test Your Computer’s Speed, if you haven’t seen this before. Now assuming you’re running a Windows machine, go ahead… You can watch this video, but I tell you in this video how to test your computer speed. You can skip this. Go ahead and click Get Started right here. Then go ahead and put in the CPU information of your computer. Now I tried doing it by cut and paste. That didn’t work. What should happen is when you start typing the type of processor you have… notice the dropdown underneath… It’s just to help you find your processor. So I guess go ahead and type it in manually… like that. So I have the Intel core i7-4790K. I click on that. It automatically fills it out. I click Next Step and that takes you to a page that looks like this. Now the benchmark score of my processor, the i7-4790K, is 11,164, and that is why I use this machine to make videos because the minimum CPU benchmark score you want to see is 45,000. This is an older machine, perhaps five or six years old, and it’s a little tiny bit outdated. I could probably get by with this machine, but now we have machines that leave it far behind — laptops running over 62,000, and the fastest desktop chip we have tested in our own facility benchmarking 74,997. The minimum CPU benchmark score you want to see is 45,000, so that’s very important. So now you know exactly how fast your machine is for trading. And you could, again, you could look at my videos and stuff, but I’m walking you through this.

Test Internet Speed

Now there’s one more aspect about checking your computer’s speed for trading and that’s this button right here: Take the Next Speed Test. And this will test internet speed. So, I’m just going to scroll under the video. The video explains how to use this right here, the Speed Test. So go, let’s go ahead and test our speed. Right now I’m connected to my Xfinity connection even though I can also connect to my AT&T Gigablast. Let’s see how my Xfinity Comcast is doing today. So I go ahead and click Go. This little tool boots up and starts running. I’m doing pretty well. This is a very nice speed. It’s not as fast as my fiber from AT&T, but it is pretty fast. I’m going to let the test finish here.

PING

Now it’s going to… that just tested the download. Now I’m testing the upload. So this number here is called the ping. Ping is your computer shooting a signal to the closest node at your provider. So I’m pinging or sending a quick signal, and looking for a response from my closest access point of my Internet provider. In this case, it’s Comcast Xfinity, and it took nine milliseconds. That is very good. You want ping under 30 milliseconds. Once you start getting over 50 or over a hundred milliseconds, you’re going to have slippage. So this is something that you want to bring down to the lowest level possible.

UPLOAD SPEED

My download speed is 360 Mbps (megabits per second). My upload speed is 24.2 Mbps. These are good numbers. A minimum download you want to see is 100 Mbps. And the minimum upload speed you want to see is also 100 Mbps.

INTERNET COST

My recommendation is don’t be cheap. Upgrade to the highest speed possible in your area that’s within reason. If you’re paying a 100 bucks a month to get the fastest Internet available, that’s fine. You should be able, you should be willing as a trader to pay a hundred bucks. If it’s $700 a month, because you have to go through some private network, that’s unreasonable.

JITTER

So here is this last piece called Jitter. This jitter score is a measure of how clean your signal is, how clean your download is, how clean your upload, how clean the signal is. Are you having what’s called packet loss, where the signal going back and forth from your computer to the first computer on the Internet, that there’s a little bit of signal loss or a little bit of data loss? That’s what jitter means. You want this as low as possible. So an acceptable tolerance for jitter is anything under 10 milliseconds. Anything over 30 means you have packet loss, and it means your signal is not clean. So your Internet speed is going to vary greatly and sometimes your signal may maybe super fast and clean, and other times your signal’s not going to come in so well.

Conclusion

Once you download the app and find out what your computer parts and components are, you will be able to do the two big tests for measuring your computer speed. You want to have a fast CPU (your processor), and you want to have the fastest Internet that you can afford within reason.

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Thanks for watching, and if you haven’t already, please feel free to download our EZ Trading Computer's Complete Guide to Trading Computers by clicking the link. This guide is packed with great tips so you can totally optimize your trading experience. Lastly, be sure to check out our latest trading computer sale by clicking the button at the top or clicking here. My name’s Eddie Z. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next video.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I check what parts are in my PC?

The quickest complete answer is Speccy, a free app from the Microsoft Store. Install it, open it, and it lists every component with brand, model and serial number in a single window. For a faster partial answer without installing anything, click Start, type "System Information" and open it — that gives you the processor, memory and Windows version, which covers most of what people actually need.

How can I tell what components are in my computer?

Speccy is the simplest route and shows everything at once. Windows has three built-in options that show less: System Information for an overview, Device Manager for hardware listed by category, and Task Manager's Performance tab for the processor, memory and drive. Use Speccy when you need model numbers, Windows when you only need to know roughly what you have.

What is in my computer?

Six things decide how it behaves: the processor, the memory, the storage drive, the graphics card, the motherboard everything connects to, and the power supply feeding all of it. For trading the first three matter most — the processor sets how fast work gets done, the memory sets how much can be open at once, and the drive sets how long you wait for any of it to start.

How do I find my computer's model and serial number?

Speccy shows both alongside every component. Windows also carries the machine's own model and serial in System Information, under System Model and BIOS. You will need them for a warranty claim, and writing them down before something breaks saves an unpleasant hour later.

Do I need to know my computer's specs to trade?

You need one: the processor's benchmark score. That single number predicts whether the machine will keep up with live data, several platforms and multiple charts, and 45,000 is the minimum for day trading. The rest of the specification matters when you are buying or upgrading, but the benchmark is what answers whether the machine you have is good enough.