Buying PC components at a store like Best Buy or Micro Center is easy. You pick what you want and take it to the register. You'll usually have the option to purchase a warranty, or at least to take ...

In your small business, you may not have enough resources to have a full-time technical support employee. That might make you the default tech support, but don't worry -- getting to know the inside of ...

The classic 5 stages pipeline CPU, each stage can be viewed a "part" of a CPU<BR><BR>- Instruction Fetch (from memory) <BR>- Instruction Decode<BR>- Execute (ALU)<BR>- Access<BR>- Writeback (To memory ...

A CPU, or central processing unit, is like the brain of any computer or mobile device. CPUs receive data from every other part of the device, and then decide how and when to launch apps, display ...

It's inevitable that, at some point, you'll have to replace old computer parts and swap them out for new ones. This might be a result of a particular component breaking or because you want to upgrade ...

If you own a modern computer, it is probably several times faster than the one that landed the first lunar module on the moon. Modern personal computers consist of many components that work together ...

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Ah, the joy of summer storms. A recent one involving a flooded basement (a torrential downpour traveled down a chipmunk burrow that led to an otherwise enclosed basement window with a broken ...