In the beginning of week two, my sponsor gave me a book called A+ Guide to Hardware which is a professional computer book for technician examination. My main task for this week is to read this book and acquire more specific knowledge about computer hardware. Compare to the information that I read in week one, the content in this book provides more detail of each component. Every day I will spend couple hours to read that book and collected the question that I didn't understand. By reading this book, I noticed that there are actually many tricks involved in assembling a desktop because different people need different computer. So, when we try to make our own computer, depending on what we need, we have to decide what components will be in the best value and serve us best. The most important component will give us direction to choose the peripheral and the secondary chips. Since I need a desktop mainly for entertainment and games, I have to be more discreet when I pick the GPU (graphics processing unit) because that is the chip deals with graphic calculations. However, other parts should not be too old otherwise they cannot cooperate with the high-standard GPU properly and will limit the GPU's performance.
On the weekend, I met with my sponsor and we talked non-stop for 6 hours which gave him enough time to answer all the questions that I had. We together disassembled the desktop into parts and he explained the explicitly the functions, the roles, and the things I have to pay more attention for every parts. It was a fun experience for me because I get to know what I want to learn and we shared lots of personal stories of our own that are relative to computer.
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