Hardware components of the PC
The CPU

The Central Processing Unit (CPU) or processor is the brain at the heart of the PC. It controls and directs all the activities of the PC and provides all the number crunching that drives any computer system's operation.

• How the processor operates
• What happens inside a Microprocessor
• Increasing the Performance of a Processor
• The Intel Processors
• Other Processors
• Cooling and Overclocking