Do not buy computer equipment on a piecemeal basis

How do we Venezuelans buy a computing device? For no one it is a secret that sales are based on brands more known than in economy or capacity, because the common Venezuelan consumer is unaware of the characteristics that we should know so that the purchase of our equipment, computer, Smartphone, this suitable to our work system, and that gives us the necessary performance to fulfill its task.

Stop buying just for the appearance of the product is what we are looking for in this post.

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When you ask about a laptop that a customer bought, he will say, that he bought X OR Y brand, products based on what the seller told him, or even worse in their appearance, what I would call a purchase to mow, maybe you can buy a pair of shoes looking at the material they are made, and choose your favorite brand that always gives good results, but it turns out that with computer equipment is not so, you must have a notions that allow you to know what you are buying, especially when it comes to capacity.

In today's article we will talk about processors, cores, and threads, to know what they are, and that when the time comes to buy, we look like experts in the field, when requesting a computer, of course there are many other components, which we must know well before making a purchase, but it will be material for another article It is enough to know that at least in processors we will have the necessary notions to acquire a computer.

Theoretical bases:

Processor:

The processor main chip of a Computer which realizes the mathematical calculations of the interpretation of binary code is of sir of (0 AND 1) and that transforms them an understandable language for the user.

It is also known as CPU central processing unit.

Processor generation:

The processors have a connection with the motherboard given by a series of pins that transfer and receive in data, each generation of processors mostly come given a series of changes in said port for its connection which makes incompatible a new processor in a previous generation.

Example a motherboard has a slot for 775 processors is compatible with processors of generations such as.

GHZ:

It is the frequency of the processor clock, in which the electrons in complete a cycle in the board, the higher the frequency speed, the faster the processor will complete the mathematical calculations.

The basic unit of frequency is known as Hertz, which is the speed of mathematical calculation in 1 second, i.e. 1 Hertz is equivalent to 1 calculation per second, now 1 mega Hertz is 1024 mathematical calculations per second, and 1 Giga Hertz is 1,048,576 mathematical calculations in 1 second.

Cores:

Cores are microprocessors that work independently but in parallel on the same board dividing their work in equal parts which allows them to perform calculations in less time.

Threads:

They are processes that are performed within the operating system that divide the tasks to be able to perform them in less time, also known as virtual cores.

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Now having the bases laid, of what make up a processor and knowing that it is the brain of our computer we will choose buying quality price of its frequency number of cores and threads and to which generation belongs to that processor.

I want to be emphatic in the fact that companies repeat a lot a series of processors with basically the same speed, but changing the generation to which it belongs, stopping support for the previous generation, ie stop sending updates for the instructions of our processor, not for that reason stop working far from it.

An Intel i3 series processor 4 cores 4 threads at 3.0 ghz is basically the same processor of the previous generation Core Dos Duo Quad. 4 cores 4 threads 3.0ghz, ie change the generation but not its capacity, Of course each generation brings with it a new range of high-end processors but that same series brings revisions of processors with capabilities of the previous generation, this is because, during post manufacturing tests processors with lower purity or defects in any of its cores that are subsequently disabled and become the low-end series of the generation in question, but the price is another thing you sell them as a brand new processor of current generation because in essence they are.

Conclusions:

Processors nowadays come out basically every month, with one after another revision of the same processor, and they bring it back to the market as a new product, and the buyer falls back into the same trick, I hope that with this post we are a little more astute before buying a new processor or purchase a product, such as phone, Tablet, Computer, knowing well then what are its features we can choose well.

References

Tony Smith (28 de febrero de 2002)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/feb/28/onlinesupplement3

Generación de procesadores Intel.

https://www.intel.la/content/www/xl/es/support/products/95544/processors/intel-core-processors/

Roswell article.

https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160515111805/http://www.datasheetarchive.com/dl/Scans-055/DSAIH000103824.pdf

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/bcp-utility?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=sql-server-ver15