Over the past 20 years the personal computer has evolved from a slow cumbersome beast to a super fast state-of-the-art, multimedia phenomenon. Today’s mobile phones have more processing power and storage capacity than pc’s of not so long ago… and we have come to expect this. We are accustomed to modern technology but not all of us so readily adapt and feel comfortable with it… especially when it goes wrong. What about the stresses we feel in keeping abreast with new developments? Are we ready to embrace Windows 7, MS Office 2010 or MS SBS 2008?
Is our current pc going to be compatible or up to the job? Can we get digital TV on our pc and if so how? If these are questions which you are interested in answering, then let Jael Consultants help.

   You may be probably aware that a personal computer is effectively a relationship between hardware and software (with firmware somewhere in-between). The PC we buy is a box of modular components which are generally linked via a Motherboard (system board) which is the component which allows the other parts to communicate.
Many home pc motherboards have other components ‘built in’ or ‘on board’ – integrated as chips on the motherboard. IE. The graphics adaptor, which controls the output to your monitor, or the Sound card, which controls audio output, or the Network adaptor (NIC), may all be on board. This is all well and good but should one of these components fail then we need another mother board along with the problem of compatibility with your current system.

The motherboard has a chipset which supports the CPU (central processing unit), the heart of the pc. Like many pc components, CPU’s follow 1 of a number of manufacturers formats. Intel are probably the best known manufacturers with AMD a close competitor.