What is a CPU?

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Hi, I'm Allen and welcome to Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to build your very own personal computer. Alright, well this right here is the main, i guess, brain of the system, this is the CPU. This is a older, a little bit older AMD CPU right here. Some of them nowadays, like the Intel Quad Cores a lot smaller than this and the technology is a lot faster obviously but it all works pretty much the same way and for the most part depending on what you want to do and what applications you are going to be running is really going to determine what speed chip and the board's going to determine what type of chip you're going to have to get, whether it's going to be a Celeron or a Quad Core or Dual Core, AMD, things like that. Once you determine what chip you want to get, then you can really start looking at the motherboard that you want to get to really run that chip. Now once you get it, it's really dummy proof to put in. The pins are pretty much grooved out and also labeled on the side here and if you look at the board once you open it up, it will only go in one way so you just pretty much going to line up the chips and if you line it up on the holes, it pretty much falls right into place, you put the bar down or however your board works, just read the directions and you'll see how to put it in. The chips, the biggest ones out there obviously, AMD and Intel, I believe there are a couple other no name brands but stay away from them I have no idea about them. I have been running AMD for a long and recently just upgraded to the Intel Quad Core and it was a toss up between the AMD Quad and the Intel Quad and after doing some research online, I found that the Intel?s, even the speeds, were coming in a lot higher rates, performance rates, than the AMDs and I said you know what, I think it's time to change go Intel, spend a couple extra dollars and just get the Intel and I'm very happy with the Intel, really no problems at this point. But the AMDs they are great as well, and if you don't want to spend as much money and also how a lot of speed and performance, AMDs are definitely a way to go. And stay up to date with AMD-Intel, the price wars, because you know you have those companies just always going at it, trying to beat each other, so sometimes one week maybe $100, next week it might be $90. So just stay on top of that stuff, so if you see something about price drops coming up in a month, wait a month and then just get a month down the road unless you really, really need that product. So that's pretty much your chip right there, as I said before, you have couple of different variations of chips, the way they run so make your on that and do some research behind that. That will determine the board and everything there on, what's going to run your chip and your system overall.

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