Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
Hegelian:
Any of the top brands should be more than satisfactory: HP, Dell, Gateway, Sony, Acer; even eMachines has turned out a few decent budget PCs (thankfully Packard Bell is no more). You can get a really nice PC without monitor direct from HP for about $600 including shipping, although you may want to add a separate graphics board at some point to replace the integrated graphics (but this will be true of any budget PC).
witch:
Quote from: Jarsie on 2006 July 20, 23:12:33
Okay, excuse my ignorance, but I thought the CPU was the tower with everything in it. That's what I was talking about, not the hardrive.
Sorry Jarsie, I misunderstood. Generally the CPU - which is the central processing unit you're right - is the chip, the brain, that sits on the motherboard. Roughly about 2-3inches square it can be swopped out and replaced by a faster chip on the same motherboard inside the same box. That was what I thought you were asking, it's something I do as often as I can afford it really.
I guess Tower is a better word for the whole enchilada. :)
This is a picture of a cpu.
When I was googling for a picture I saw many people actually call their box, tower, machine, PC - whatever - I see many call it a CPU. A CPU is actually just a component.
I know many Brits also call the machine a 'hard drive' - a hard drive is just another component inside. The bit that stores information like your files and the operating system. Very confusing eh? ;)
If the CPU is the brain, the IQ, then the hard drive is the memory.
jsalemi:
Quote from: witch on 2006 July 21, 00:43:38
If the CPU is the brain, the IQ, then the hard drive is the memory.
No, the memory is the memory -- the hard drive is the library. :)
witch:
Yeah I suppose. Though I was thinking of it in relation to a real brain, where the permanent storage / hard drive is the memory. RAM would be short term memory because it's dynamic.
jsalemi:
Yea, that analogy works too... :)
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