Monday, May 26, 2008

The CPU

The CPU (central processing unit or processor) is the brains of your PC; everything that happens inside your PC has to interact with it. There's a bewildering number of processors out there for all budgets, with prices from around £25 for low-end CPUs up to £700 or more for the fastest models.
But with an equally bewildering amount of names and numbers, things aren't as simple as they once were. In this guide, we'll look at mainstream desktop and mobile processors. We won't be looking at specialised server or workstation models

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