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[NC Derek]

i found this at gamespot. so hers a link. i dont know a lot about computers, so i read it all and learned a lot about everything. theres a lot of people here that know more than this stuff because theyve been doing these things for years, but maybe other people who are younger or never built a computer will find it interesting like i did.

heres what it covers: and theres 2 or 3 forum pages of info of the dozen
Contents:
Why AMD CPUs are clocked lower yet remain faster?
What is hyperthreading and hyper transport?
What is 64 bit computing?
What is CAS latency?
What is PCI express and why is it better?
LCD or CRT?
Okay but how do CRTs work exactly?
And LCDs?
Should I/Must I upgrade?
What�s RAID?
What�s a pagefile?
Erm, what�s a bus?
What�s fragmentation?
Okay, what�s defragmentation?
What else can you tell me about HDs?
What are these new dual core CPUs?
What�s is the Cell?
What�s a front side bus?
What is RISC processing?
What�s SIMD?
What�s a GPU?
What�s a normal map?
Aside from LCD and CRT what other display technologies are there?
What�s anti-aliasing?
What�s anisotropic filtering?
What�s dvd+r, dvd-r?
What�s dual channel RAM?
What�s a shader?
What are openGL and D3D?
What�s SSE2?
What is compression and how does it work?
What is a BIOS?
What are form factors?
How many frames per second can the human eye see?
How does a faster hard drive affect PC performance?
How does a processor do arithmetic?
What do I need to build a computer?
What is meant by bottleneck?
What are GPU pipelines?
How do I put these parts together?
How big a power supply do I need?
What's a screen buffer?
What's a RAMDAC?
What's V-sync?
what's a clock cycle and clockspeed/rate?
What's Overclocking?
What different types of RAM are there?

http://www.gamespot....pic_id=22050300

[DarkShadow]

from an ubergeek perspective Im going to say that article is somewhat informative, yet very much dragging

For example, their first question about why AMD's perform better but are slower then intel, let me just get right to it, AMD have near 12 clock cycles while Intel has half that, AMD do more with less provided that you half a half-decent CPU.

If there was an actual AMD that matched the speed of intel's best, it would dominate[3.0 GHz v 3.0 Ghz], thus Intel have to keep overclocking and pumping out new lines of products to keep up, but if anyone actually had the cash to spend on any of these products it would be made simplified, the obvious is AMD do More with Less

nevertheless it is informative to n00bz.

[Aziz]

Thanks, man, that will be helpful.

Shadow.. one of these days... i will stab you for calling me a n00b.