The Fundamentals of Random Access Memory (RAM)

RAM is a core component of a computer system. Today you’ll learn what RAM is, how it’s used and provide some guidelines on getting the right amount for you. What is RAM Random Access Memory (or RAM) is a computer hardware component used to store and retrieve data temporary data for applications. RAM is used…

Painting a Picture with GPUs

GPUs have become a hot topic over the years. Their main purpose is to render visual game data for display on a monitor or projector. There’s also been use for it in parallel computing tasks like mining bitcoin and high data processing. Today I’ll be discussing why GPUs are important, which kind might be best…

A Dissection Of A Motherboard

Motherboards are the foundation of computers. Motherboards, are used for smartphones to servers and everything in between… they all have a motherboard. It provides connectivity between all parts required to make your computer run. Modern motherboards are comprised of several components. This article will talk about the common pieces, what they do and why they’re needed.

Battle Of the Brands: AMD vs. Intel

Big companies like Google and Amazon, likely developed custom made hardware for their enormous workloads. Probably crunching millions or trillions pieces of data daily. For the general consumer, you have two main stream options: AMD or Intel. These are the dominate brands (and practically only options) in the CPU space. For the inquisitive minds they…