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The processor. It is located on the motherboard. Sometimes people refer to the motherboard as a computer's brains also.

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processor proccesses and the RAM is random access memory so both of them

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This usually refers to the Central Processing Unit(CPU).

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CPU is the "commonly known as" name of that component. Either CPU or Processor. The acronym CPU stands for "Central Processing Unit". The previous answer of "mother bored" is completely wrong for 2 reasons: 1) it is "motherboard" or "mother board" 2) the CPU is a required add-on component TO the motherboard, not the motherboard itself.


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The Processor is the brains of the computer to process the information. All of the data that you are working from is from the Hard Drive.


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The brains off the computer is called a brain-computer interface (BCI)


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