3. This is where I am confused as hell:
-- What is a gpu vs. a cpu?
-- What's the point of water-cooling? Doesn't it out your computer at risk? Can't I just use fans?
-- I currently have 4 gb of ram and I wish to have at least 6, do I order multiple ram cards, or what?
-- If I order a case with a tower, should I buy a bunch of hard drives, what are other uses for tower cases?
Lastly, I have a question about appearance: How do I make the insides of the computer light up with different colours?
1. If the Power Supply of a computer is the "Heart" of the computer, than a CPU is the "Brains" of the computer. The CPU processes data, and the higher clock rate or the more cores (Individual "Pawns" of a CPU that do the actual computing), the more powerful a CPU Is
However, GPUs are designed to render data into something readable, like on a monitor or such. They do much better performance for things like games, whereas CPUs are better for more practical uses.
2. Watercooling can seem risky to install and a break in the pipe can ruin your computer, but they do a much better job of cooling the processor, especially when overclocking
3. There are 3 types of Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM), DDR1, DDR2, and DDR3. The higher level RAM, the better, especially when taking RAM clocks. RAM is used to hold information in "Memory". Importantly though, RAM empties itself every time you turn off a computer. RAM comes in either Multiple Cards with the RAM divided to each card (Lets say, 2 Sticks with 2 GB of RAM combined equals 4 GB.)
4. Ill let someone else talk about Tower Cases
Also, about Multiple Monitors,
1. Lower level GPUs can support multi monitors (Atleast I think so.) but they wont run as well as using a higher level GPU
2. People buy multiple Graphics cards to increase video rendering performance, using either AMDs Crossfire Technology or NVIDIA's SLI tech, which harnesses the power of a GPU and combines it with other GPUs
Ill let someone else explain memory on Graphics Cards
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