PCs For Dummies, 13th Edition

Chapter 5

Deep Inside the Console

In This Chapter

Studying the console's insides

Supplying the console with power

Examining the motherboard

Understanding the processor

Checking your PC’s processor

Setting the time

You have absolutely no reason to open up the computer console and peer inside. Just as you probably don’t venture under the hood of your car or probe around the interior of the furnace or look inside a cat. You can find professionals who are better equipped to deal with such chores. Let them do it.

Then again, you may have a faint recollection of the terms motherboard, processor, power supply, and so on. It’s possible to use your computer for eons and never really understand or relate to those terms. I’m guessing, however, that you want more from your PC investment than to simply gloss over such specifics. So although you may never venture inside of it, it still matters ...