Hardware Basics

[Duronos]

Hey,

Been starting to love computers lately (software wise) but I am looking for the basics of hardware to be explained to me and what makes one graphics card is better and stuff like that.

Sorry for a brief and vast question.

[Nickle]

Well it depends on what you're looking at and what you define as "better"

[Duronos]

I'm looking for things like what is a cpu chip and its function and things like that.

[weezel]

You will want to look at the following

1: Will my power supply support a new card. Some new cards use in excess of 400 watts alone
2: Check the speed of the GPU ( Graphics Processing Unit )
3: Does it have multiple processors or multiple cores?
4: Check the number of pixle pipelines more the better
5: Ram speed. DDR3 is obiously faster then DDR2
6: Check the memory speed. 1200MHZ is faster than 850MHZ

---------- Post added 2011-02-16 at 05:03 PM ----------

If you want to learn all about hardware go to www.hardforums.com Anything and everything about PC's is discussed their. From your terminal client to high end server equip

[Duronos]

You will want to look at the following

1: Will my power supply support a new card. Some new cards use in excess of 400 watts alone
2: Check the speed of the GPU ( Graphics Processing Unit )
3: Does it have multiple processors or multiple cores?
4: Check the number of pixle pipelines more the better
5: Ram speed. DDR3 is obiously faster then DDR2
6: Check the memory speed. 1200MHZ is faster than 850MHZ

---------- Post added 2011-02-16 at 05:03 PM ----------

If you want to learn all about hardware go to www.hardforums.com Anything and everything about PC's is discussed their. From your terminal client to high end server equip

Thanks very much for the information.