Hardware-specific questions

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Published on 2010-04-12T16:29:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 16:33 UTC
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I'm good at programming yet I feel like I don't know enough about the architecture of the hardware I'm working on.

  • What does the Northbridge on the mainboard do?
  • What does the L2 cache of my processor do?

  • Can Windows XP use multiple processors? Not in terms of concrete multitasking in all programs but using the capacity of all cores if needed instead of always only one core.

  • How can my processor/mainboard interact with multiple kinds of graphics/sound cards?

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