Microprocessors

Central Processing Unit, processor, microprocessor, computer brain, floating-point-calculator, integer calculator, core, etc

They can be called a lot of things, but CPU, processor and microprocessor are the big three.

Best is a subjective question that requires personal opinion to answer. There are a few empirical answers to it however it all depends on the processor being cooled. An Ivy Bridge processor has an extremely small die area, and those will not be as effectively cooled as one of the large "sandy Bridge" era CPUs. AMD processors likewise use a larger lithogrpahy that is more effectively cooled with large heatpipe coolers.

For cost efficiency and low idle temperatures a heatpipe Direct touch cooler with aluminum fins will generally be the most cost effective. Originally designed as a "Xigmatek HDT" tower, it has been rebadged as an OCZ vendetta, Coolermaster Hyper 212 and a number of other heatsinks over the last decade.

For larger high TDP processors the answer is still basically the same, except a much larger size (3 to 4 times the fin surface area) and more heatpipes, combine with additional fans. As the Thermaltake Frio, Noctua DH-14 and the Phanteks PH-TC14PE are among some of the highest rated large sized tower coolers.

Lastly on the serious end of "air cooling" is what is termed "water cooling."

Water cooling is a misleading term as modern heatpipe coolers also use water to move heat from teh CPU surface to shed it at large metal fins.

Modern water cooling, uses standard water to transfer heat from a CPU block to a large radiator that can be setup somewhere else, either in the case or externally. The primary benefit to this is large amounts of heat can be moved efficiently. This does not lead to significantly lower temperatures over a high end "tower cooler" but can reduce overall case temperatures, and more importantly can equal the performance of the best tower coolers at far lower noise levels.

You must be referring to the CPU heatsink/fan assembly. Modern CPUs generate so much heat that it is necessary to provide cooling in order to prevent damage. The heat sink is a metal piece which mounts directly on top of the CPU, through physical contact the heatsink draws heat from the CPU into itself. The top of the heatsink is designed to have as much surface area as possible in order to maximize heat dispersal.

Usually a fan is then mounted on top of the heatsink in order to further increase its cooling ability.

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They are used on the old square nuts and bolts. Some automotive drain plugs have square heads. Also, certain sizes are useful in theatrical lighting instruments and on chassis punches. Anywhere you encounter a bolt with a square head, an 8-point socket will be useful. They are also know as "double square" sockets.

not as good as dual core processor, its slower and sh*t

Edit for more detail: imagine this; you are working on a school project. alone. while your friend john is working with his brother. you are doing the same topic, and have the same due date. 3 weeks later, your stressed out because you still have quite a bit of work to do, while john and brother are on vacation in Florida, or something. buuutttt, john has a cousin who has the same project to do with the same due date, but 1 1/2 weeks earlier than john finished, his cousin was done. and imagine johns cousin has a brother who has THE SAME PROJECT DUE but he has 6 friends, and so on so on. once you start to get into 12 + core territory, its pretty overkill and will just slow down the whole processor in trade for more things at once. because the more the merrier, but too many chefs spoil the soup.

Yes,but in low settings,if you want better settings you need a core2 quad q8400 or better.For maximum settings you need a core i7 and a gtx 260 or Ati 4870 graphic card,plus 4 gb of ram.

Frankly, most modern games are GPU (graphics-card) bound more than CPU-bound. A Core i3 will easily run GTA 4 in all but the highest resolutions (1900x1200 or higher) provided it has a good graphics card - generally at least an nVidia GTX 460 or Radeon 6850. You will need sufficient RAM (2GB minimum if you run nothing else).

The sad fact of the current state-of-the-art games is that they are poorly designed (from a software standpoint). Very few scale well with added cores (most barely use two cores well), and are notoriously poorly multi-threaded. Very, very few games really can make use of a Quad-core system - in fact, most games which "recommend" a quad-core system do so not for the game, but so that the game can have two cores to itself, and the additional cores run system or other apps. Now that most GPUs include physics modeling support, the vast majority of work in a modern PC game is done on the GPU, with the CPU generally being much less loaded (often, doing "housekeeping" functions and audio, and little else).

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Computer parts can be come VERY hot and if they are not cooled down sufficiently it can ruin your computer. The fan is to cool down the processor.

Any 64-bit processor with a 64-bit chipset should be able to. For instance, a Core 2 Duo on a 975X. Some older 32-bit server processors and motherboards could also address 6 GB with PAE enabled, but these were much more limited in what you could actually accomplish with them.

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I know that the #1 producer is Intel

When we talk about Core 2 duo, Core duo, or Core single we are talking about the actual numbers of microprocessors in the computer. When you buy a Core 2 Duo chip, such as the "Wolfdale" series from Intel you get one chip that has two actual processors on it and either one or two L2 Caches. To compare a core 2 duo T8300 processor to a 2.4 ghz chip that only has one processor on it that has a 800mhz FSB, the T8300 would not quite be twice as powerful, but it is more than one and a half times as powerful.

LEA in microprocessors or other electronic devices stands for Low Energy Analog (LEA) interface. IEC60044-7, IEC60044-8and ANSI C37.92 standards define specifications of LEA interface. Typically used for sensor and metering interfaces.

The new ANSI C37.92 standard, and the IEC60044-8 standard, defines the nominal rating for current measurements as 4V for metering purposes, and 200mV for relaying purposes. LEA interfaces use voltage values to represent current.

in assymetric processor the operating system typically sets aside one or more processors for its exclusive use while in symetric processors are used to get higher levels of performance, any processor here can run any type of thread, they communicate with each other through shared memory

Amount of cache memory, speed of processor, speed of the front side bus

throughput

Software is written to work with a particular operating system. Windows software requires the Windows operating system and Mac software requires Apple's Mac OS X. The two are not interchangeable. A Mac can run the Windows operating system and thus Windows software but Mac OS X can only be used on Apple's own computers.

If you have a fast processor and want it to go faster you should give it a try but i personally would not risk a new fast processor. with the slower one it may become a little bit faster with overclocking but only if it is capable. by fast you might mean new, it is usually easier to overclock with a newer processor because they usually have new features that make it easier to let you overclock. happy tweaking!

There's more than one possibility, but it's probably Rainmeter or Rainlendar. If you don't know much about tech, these can get a bit hard though. You could probably download it, it's free and it comes with a clock, wi-fi status and other stuff like calendars.

the microprocessor was first introduced on November 1971 and appeared in Electronic News .

Actually, the first commercial microprocessor was the AL1 developed by Four Phase Systems. See the Description of this chip on the Computer History Museum timeline.

CPU throttling allows the system to use less power when it is not under a heavy load. This makes it both run cooler and more quietly (since it won't need to spin the fan as much), and conserves battery life.