A Gentle Guide to Computer Hardware: CPUs, RAM, and Storage Explained
A Gentle Guide to Computer Hardware: CPUs, RAM, and Storage Explained Computer hardware can feel technical at first. However, three parts mostly determine how fast tasks feel: the CPU, RAM, and storage. This guide keeps things simple and explains what each part does and how they affect everyday use. CPU: the brain of your computer The CPU, or central processing unit, handles instructions from programs. The main ideas to know are cores, clock speed, and cache. Cores are like separate workers: more cores help when many tasks run at once, such as editing photos while you browse. Clock speed, measured in GHz, signals how fast a single core can work, but not every task scales the same with higher GHz. Cache is a tiny, fast memory close to the CPU used to store recently used data. ...