Computer Hardware chart. This has a lot of information about various hardware.
This hardware chart has a lot of information about various hardware sockets and plugs used by computer hardware. Older systems are covered as well as more modern hardware such as SATA ports; and the older IDE connectors. The old IDE system was very annoying; the SATA equivalent that we use these days as well as eSATA is a better choice. The eSATA connection is very useful when you have an operating system installed to an external hard drive and you need a fast connection to the desktop computer. This way you can have the hard drive outside the computer which will keep the poor thing cool and allow it to function for longer. That is important with hard drives which can get quite warm and they need to be protected from the heat as excessive heat for long periods will cause early failure of the drive. The slot1 system that saw a CPU plugged into a slot in the motherboard in a sort of cartridge was all the rage a while ago. I had a computer for ages that was a Pentium II 350 MMX and this used a slot1 CPU.
Anyway; I hope that you find this hardware chart useful. I found this on http://www.technibble.com.
I am a computer enthusiast that has always been interested in maintaining and upgrading computer hardware. I was born on a farm and lived there for 13 years before moving into town. I was always interested in technology and my father always gave me good encouragement for developing my knowledge and interest in tinkering with computers. He was using a computer on the farm but that was in the very late 80`s and late 90`s. Seeing what a computer could do always fascinated me and then I knew that is what I wanted to do. The first time I used Linux was Red Hat 6.2 installed off a single CDROM and I was amazed that you did not need to install any more drivers on my old Intel Celeron machine to be able to enjoy a nice 24BPP desktop and use the GIMP to edit photos and enjoy playing the old Linux games like Xbill. Then a while later I tried Mandrake Linux 9.2 and I was hooked. It came with so much software and was very easy to use as well. Then Mandrake Linux 10 and on through FreeBSD, Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1 Suse Linux 9.2, Suse 10 and onto the Ubuntu distributions although I am using Fedora Core 15 and the Gnome 3 desktop at the moment.
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