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Hardware (microprocessor (specs (thermal design point, clock frequency,…

- - - - hardware within computer
      - carries out computer program instruction
      - performing basic arithmetical, logical & I/O operations
      - of the system
  - - - 3 steps
        
        fetch
        
        from memory
        
        decode
        
        in control unit
        
        execute
        
        storing of data
  - - - transistor count
      - clock speed
      - efficiency
      - cache
    - - pipelining
        
        overlap execution
      - multicore
        
        single chip, 2 or more separate processor cores
      - hyper/multithreading
        
        duplicate some resources (in registers) to reduce switch time.
        allow simultaneous execute
      - register renaming
        
        renaming to allow parallelism
- - - - form factor
        
        size
        eg. atx, mini atx
      - chipset
        
        set of chips complete electronic circuit
      - socket
        
        microprocessor slot
      - memory capacity
        
        max mem size
      - expansion slot
        
        add device
        eg. pci slot
      - connectivity
        
        no. of ports
        eg. usb, audio, video, network
- - - - eg pci
    - - eg usb
    - - eg sata
  - - - eg pci
    - - eg sata