Description of Motherboards
What Is a CPU?
The CPU is often called the main processor of your PC. CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. The speed of the CPU will say 2.4Ghz or 3Ghz PC.
What does the CPU look like?
The CPU will likely be the larger of the chips on the mainboard inside your PC. The CPU will be covered by a heatsink and fan. The heatsink and fan are extremely important. Without these the CPU would get too hot to work and possibly melt or burn out.
The CPU is the main processor of your PC. Everything that goes on in your PC at some point goes through your CPU. The CPU is brain of the PC.
The CPU's speed is a measure of MHz (megahertz) or more recently GHz (gigahertz). a chip with a megahertz rating of 900Mhz would be able to complete 900Million cycles every second.
Types of CPU
There are two main desktop CPU manufacturers, they are Intel and AMD. Both of these companies have a power CPU and a Budget CPU. The Power CPU's are the Core 2 Quad from Intel and the Phenom X3 and Phenom Quad from AMD. The budget CPU's are the Celeron from Intel and the Sempron from AMD.
There are two main desktop CPU manufacturers, they are Intel and AMD. Both of these companies have a power CPU and a Budget CPU. The Power CPU's are the Core 2 Quad from Intel and the Phenom X3 and Phenom Quad from AMD. The budget CPU's are the Celeron from Intel and the Sempron from AMD.
Each range of CPU fits into a specific socket on your motherboard. motherboards are design with one socket type and cannot be made to take another. Socket types changes quite rapidly, a socket change usually happens when a new breed of CPU surfaces.
Types of Sockets are given below:
The Cache on the CPU is a small amount of very fast memory which is situated on the CPU.The CPU cache acts as the repeated memory storage for data that the CPU requires frequently.It ranges from about 64Kb to 8Mb.
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