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Cleaning personal computer components

Cleaning personal computer components
On numerous forums with surprising constancy there are branches in which the interlocutors try to understand the causes of failures in laptops and personal computers. As a rule, we are talking about “freezes” of the system during the operation of three-dimensional applications and random reboots. Surprisingly, in most cases, the cause of what is happening is not the actions of viruses or malicious hackers, but the banal ignorance by the owners of recommendations on the operation of computer systems. It should be remembered that any equipment needs periodic maintenance. So, you need to wipe the TV screen, wash and defrost the refrigerator, and clean computers and laptops from dust. In computer technology, ignoring this leads to malfunctions, breakdowns and subsequent repairs. Continue reading

The motherboard and its role in personal computers

One of the most important components of your computer is the motherboard. However, her name speaks for itself. After all, it depends on it what equipment you can install on your personal computer. The motherboard not only interconnects all other parts of the computer, but also coordinates their work and distributes the electricity that is supplied to it from the power supply. Now a few words about what the motherboard consists of.

The first and most important component can definitely be called a chipset. It is a complex of microcircuits and determines the configuration of the computer as a whole. However, the chipset is present in any technology that uses electronics.

The chipset itself consists of south and north bridges. The North Bridge is responsible for the operation of the processor, RAM and video card. For all other resources (hard drives, network card, USB ports, etc., etc.) the south Continue reading

Notebooks: thinking about the features of choice

Laptops have long ceased to be inferior to personal computers. If you want to buy a laptop, it is better to immediately think about what purpose it will be used. This purchase is not cheap, so it’s better to immediately get decent equipment.

Choose a laptop according to the parameters should be guided by some rules. You need to start from the monitor. There is a stereotype that a laptop is not able to give an image of such high quality as on a PC. However, these are only rumors.

A common diagonal of the screen of laptops in the region from 15 to 17.5 inches. Continue reading

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