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How to buy a computer

1.-What is a computer?

A computer is an electronic machine that can ‘play’ with the information (or data). It can process, retrieve and store the data.

Today we use the computers for a lot of things as:

-Surf the Internet.

-Send e-mails.

-Work with it.

-Play games.

-Communicate with other people.

Usually we use another type of computers, without keyboard, monitor, tower, mouse and another hardware; processors as calculator, register machine, ATM’s or Mp5.

2.- Define hardware and software of a computer.

Hardware: Is the physical part of a computer. The hardware cannot be variability. In the computers there’re many hardware as the monitor, the keyboard, all the cards, the hard drive, the speakers...

Software: Software is the informatic part of the computers they are the programs and the system that we do possible to use the computer.

3.- Which elements make up a computer?

The most important parts are:

Memory, Data Bus, Processor, Register, Control Unit and MRD (Memory Data Register).

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Other parts:

ALU (Arithmetic and Logic Unit), Accumulator, CIR (Current Instruction Register), MAR (Memory Address Register) and SRC (Sequence Control Register)

4.- What is CPU of a computer?

CPU = Central Processing Unit

It is often called the brain of the computer, or the computer’s engine. Whenever you press a key, click the mouse, or start an application, you’re sending instruction to the CPU.

5.- What is a microprocessor and what is its mission?

As the CPU is a essential part of a computer and it determinates how fast a computer can execute instructions.

6.-Which type of microprocessors can you buy at the market?

Intel, AMD, Pentium D, AMD Sempron, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, AMD Opteron, Intel Celeron D, Intel Pentium 4.

7.- Which is the unit measure of a microprocessor speed?

It’s the megahertz (MHZ) and gigahertz (GHZ).

8.- What is the Motherboard?

In the motherboard are all of the other circuit boards. On you can find several expansion cards. Each of these cards has a special purpose.

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9.-What is the mission of a hard drive in a computer?

The hard disk drive is the data centre of the computer. All the programs are stored here. When you turn off the computer all the information that you want to maintain, its save in the hard drive.

10.-How can we be measured the capacity of the memory in a hard drive?

It uses the binary code, its only compose of 0 and 1. And the capacity of the computer is measured in bytes.

11.- What is RAM?

Random Access Memory (RAM) only can write and it can’t save information, so when you turn off the computer the information that you process with the RAM memory disappeared.

12.- What is the graphic card for?

The video card or graphic card is responsible of all the things that you see in the monitor. If video card is great you will see better the monitor. It has a lot of responsibility for the computer games.

13.- What is the sound card for?

It allows us listening music and sounds in the computer