As Boys II Men famously sang, "it's so hard to say goodbye." This, ladies and gentlemen, is the last article in my How Your Computer Works series. Sigh. Yes, I remember oh so long ago when we

Let's face it. Nowadays a computer without regular access to the internet is pretty much useless. Yes you can still play single player games and yeah you can still use it as a word processor (though you'd

A sound card Today we'll be talking about an unsung hero of your computer: the sound card. Many motherboards come with integrated sound (that is, they're capable of producing audio even without a sound

On the left, RAM. On the right, hard drive. Today in our adventures in computer literacy we'll be talking about the RAM and Hard Drive! It's better to discuss them together because they're both types of

Awww yeah, everyone! It's time for one of the sections I've been looking the most forward to: the Graphics Card (GPU) section! The Graphics Card in your computer is inserted in a compatible slot on your

Today we're going to continue our adventures in computer literacy by talking about the heart and soul of the computer, the CPU (often referred to simply as the central processor or processor). CPU stands