Thursday, December 17, 2009

PC Hardware Components - The Processor




This is the "brain" of your Computer. An extremely sophisticated piece of miniaturized electronics, the processor (often called the CPU or Central Processing Unit) is at the bottom of all tasks the PC performs. The processor reads instructions (commands) from memory that tell it what it needs to do to accomplish the work that the user wants, and then executes them. Intel is one of the major manufacturers of Computer processors.
Ex: Intel Pentium III 400GhzIn this example Intel is the manufacturer. Pentium is their product type (Intel manufacture Celeron range as well). "III 400Ghz" is the processor speed. So Pentium "IV 200 Ghz" is faster than "III 400Ghz".




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