Motherboard, CPU and memory Left: The on-board L2 cache. Right: The Pentium® Pro processor core with 5.5 million transistors. Source: IntelIntel

Motherboard: components bus, chipset, CPU, memory

Motherboard: bus system data bus address bus system/control bus expansion slots ISA, EISA, VESA,SCSI, PCI, AGP How local bus works?How local bus works? PCI vs VESAPCI vs VESA Bus speedsBus speeds: Pentium 4 and AthlonXPPentium 4 AthlonXP

Motherboard: chipset components of the chipset memory controller I/O controller bus controller cache controller chipset desirable features EDO (Extended Data Out) RAM Pipeline Burst (Synchronous) SRAM cache PCI local bus APM (Advanced Power Management) ECC (error correction code) or no ECC? types of chipsets

CPU (Processor) Main manufacturers: Intel, AMD, VIA, Motorola, IBMIntelAMDVIA MotorolaIBM Speed (MHz,GHz): Intel comparison. Intel and AMD. You can also do it.Intel comparison Intel and AMDdo it L1, L2 cache: OverviewOverview PipeliningPipelining and Hyper-ThreadingHyper-Threading Slots and SocketsSlots and Sockets: Intel and AMD.IntelAMD SummarySummary of processors.

Main Memory basic concepts memory banks (0,1,2): 64 Meg to 1 Gig SIMMs (single in-line memory modules), DIMMS (dual in-line memory modules), SDRAM (synchronous DRAM) SIMMs older, DIMMS old, SDRAM newer PCs organization: conventional and extended additional references Upgrading memory c|net RAM Primer All about memory PNY Electronics: configure memoryconfigure memory Crucial memory selectormemory selector