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Every year in the personal computers and peripherals industry, there are a huge number of changes related to the improvement of technologies, the improvement of the technical characteristics and consumer qualities of the products produced. The degree of integration of electronic components increases, dimensions and weight of devices decrease. New interfaces appear, go into non-existence old. The bright examples of such processes are the recent transition from the Moral Outdated ATA interface to a more convenient and speed SERIAL ATA, as well as the appearance of the DisplayPort progressive connector in video cards and monitors. Over the past three years, the strategy for the development of processors for desktop PC has radically changed. The race of Gigahertz & Quot, which lasted for many years, went into the past, and the main tone began to set multi-core processors with a 64-bit architecture. Recently, the trend of the redistribution of functional blocks between processors, system logic and video adapters is trained. The process of rapprochement of personal computers and household electronic devices becomes more and more pronounced. On the one hand, today in many household appliances, computer components are used: hard drives, optical drives, flash memory, and so on. On the other hand, modern PCs are increasingly acting as homemade media centers, which is especially well noticeable on the example of multimedia Barebone-systems, as well as game consoles. In modern conditions, monitor continuously occurring changes is becoming more complicated.
This book is designed to help a wide range of readers - both beginners and experienced PC users - navigate in the variety of products offered by producers and solutions, understand the features of modern PCs used in them components, as well as peripheral devices