Category Archives: Buying Hardware Components

The number one thing you can do to improve the performance of your computer is to increase your memory size.  I’ve heard this for a number of years, and I beieve it is true. Why?  Let’s start with speed.  Currently … Continue reading →

Graphic cards have been around since around the 1990′s.  The idea then, as it is today, was to off load the drawing of the display on the monitor from the central processing unit to speed up the computer.  This has … Continue reading →

Computer chips use a lot of power in the relatively small wafer area of the computer chip. The computer chip, CPU, offers resistance to that power as it does its work. The result of that amount of power with that … Continue reading →

Computer chips are made in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.”  Kudos to a 1926 short story by Ernest Hemingway.  I don’t think Hemingway anticipated today’s computer clean rooms and complex nanometer manufacturing technology. After all in 1926 computer chips didn’t even … Continue reading →

In talking about hardware components, we’ve covered computer cases, tools of the trade, monitors, keyboards, mice, hard drives, and DVD drives.  These components can be pretty much purchased independently of the rest of the system components. We are about to … Continue reading →