369 If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? 2014-01-07T20:18:51.673
224 32-bit vs. 64-bit systems 2009-10-17T11:14:58.603
92 Can some software physically damage hardware? 2011-07-22T16:50:46.710
92 How to check my RAM configuration (Windows 7)? 2013-09-25T17:10:44.277
73 How does a CPU 'know' what commands and instructions actually mean? 2011-07-06T14:44:18.040
63 Why have CPU manufacturers stopped increasing the clock speeds of their processors? 2013-07-08T08:00:31.780
54 Why do computers count from zero? 2013-04-05T04:33:23.380
48 What is the actual speed of SATA 3? 2015-06-04T03:58:33.693
37 How can I enable PAE on Windows 7 (32-bit) to support more than 3.5 GB of RAM? 2009-10-07T14:11:37.867
37 Why can't you have both high instructions per cycle and high clock speed? 2012-07-12T03:20:12.637
33 Where exactly L1, L2 and L3 Caches located in computer? 2010-10-05T14:46:29.640
32 How can computers calculate exponential math without overflow errors? 2012-07-23T15:26:59.047
31 Why are there so many pins on a SATA power connector? 2010-01-20T13:52:13.303
26 How can I determine if the current version of Windows is either 32-bit or 64-bit from the command line? 2010-01-15T05:28:57.957
23 What are "Instructions per Cycle"? 2009-07-25T19:49:35.527
21 What is the maximum amount of ram a 64bit machine can theoretically address? 2009-11-03T19:24:19.643
20 Difference between port mapped and memory mapped access? 2014-01-18T22:08:40.937
16 Why multi core processors? 2010-06-12T14:29:35.760
16 How to find the architecture of OS installed 2010-08-09T14:06:27.177
16 Is a higher core count or higher clock speed more beneficial to a computer's performance? 2011-08-17T19:27:50.770
13 How do Xeon processors differ from regular processors? 2008-12-09T11:14:10.123
13 How do I interpret the specification of memory (RAM)? 2011-07-26T16:22:10.210
13 Why is it not recommended to shut down a computer "brutally" (power switch)? 2015-01-19T14:09:45.490
11 Why does RAM need to be installed in pairs? 2010-02-15T22:37:44.057
11 Will a new processor with slower clockspeed run legacy applications faster? 2011-10-20T06:55:24.003
11 On x86 architecture, why are there fewer bits for virtual address space than physical? 2013-10-06T14:50:57.610
11 Whats the difference between physical and virtual cache? 2014-04-23T11:25:39.900
10 How does the CPU write infomation to ram? 2009-08-24T07:39:25.413
10 Is it possible to run a larger than 4GB .exe? 2013-10-30T22:12:21.220
9 Alternatives to the 0 and 1 bit style/structure 2013-07-07T20:37:51.360
8 How does increasing the number of transistors in a chip increase its speed? 2010-05-31T01:21:32.533
8 How can I determine whether my processor is 32-bit or 64-bit? 2010-09-22T17:27:16.660
8 Calculating hard disk block model reading time 2013-05-15T17:38:16.320
7 What do the terms "asynchronous" and "synchronous" mean, with respect to the definition of an interrupt? 2011-08-02T17:54:34.427
7 Understanding "Flat memory model" and "Segmented memory model" 2011-08-04T01:12:03.630
7 How does an atomic operation guarantee consistency from a hardware perspective? 2012-03-14T20:00:25.540
7 Is the Front Side Bus part of the CPU or the Motherboard? 2015-07-06T17:26:01.200
6 If the size of the (accessible) RAM is limited, why isn't the hard disk? 2010-03-25T16:59:16.003
6 Intel data bus of Intel 80486 and above CPUs 2010-05-01T15:16:18.647
6 Run 10 sets of headphones from a pc via 10 separate channels 2011-08-13T23:08:20.883
6 Why can't memory clock speeds be as fast as the CPU speed? 2011-10-02T05:02:04.400
6 How can I find a list of all SSE instructions? What happens if a CPU doesn't support SSE? 2012-11-06T00:55:38.870
6 When powering off a computer, what exactly happens? 2013-02-27T14:51:19.413
6 Why can't PCIe devices share lanes? 2014-04-19T19:28:41.437
6 What does it mean (to decode) in the execution cycle 2016-03-21T21:48:07.663
5 Why are GPUs cheaper than CPUs? 2010-04-29T17:25:38.783
5 Difference between cache memory and register? 2010-11-09T13:24:35.683
5 Intel's AES-NI performance: Isn't the hard drive the bottleneck? 2011-07-25T04:53:30.120
5 What type(s) of performance improvements to expect between architectures using QPI versus a FSB? 2011-11-17T04:15:52.280
5 Doing some detective work on old computer hardware 2013-10-28T06:48:12.630
5 PCI BAR memory addresses 2014-04-26T20:50:02.210
5 32-bit to 64-bit skipping 48-bit? 2014-08-17T11:41:33.570
5 understanding CPU,RAM,and Hard Disk Drive 2014-10-27T08:20:09.530
5 How is microcode loaded to processor? 2015-07-01T21:53:36.420
5 How Windows uses .inf files to load the correct drivers 2015-07-10T18:25:31.963
4 Relation between controllers, interfaces, adapt cards, chipsets, buses 2010-06-05T12:22:23.183
4 What hardware is at physical address 0x80000000 on powerpc New World Macintosh? 2010-06-16T11:43:06.117
4 Is the size of a memory address and size of the address bus related? 2011-08-04T00:54:56.717
4 How do hardware interrupts work compared to software interrupts? 2011-12-05T19:32:14.760
4 Do someone know how to use this 8 GB space in ny computer? 2012-08-10T04:11:45.510
4 How does a USB external graphics card work? 2013-11-09T14:25:58.977
4 How BIOS extensions (option ROMs) work? 2014-04-27T22:36:49.943
4 How mouse button re-mappings work? 2014-05-03T15:43:59.903
4 why are RAM chips independent of whether my system is a 32bit system or 64 bit system? 2014-05-06T14:17:35.767
4 Are Modern Computers based on Von Neumann Model? 2014-09-25T10:14:29.220
4 What is meant by timer resolution in microseconds? 2015-09-08T15:19:01.683
4 Is there any existing CPU implementation which uses one's complement? 2016-10-20T19:33:28.863
4 Does UEFI run on top of BIOS? 2019-06-18T21:22:46.973
3 PCI max throughput 2009-11-08T08:44:19.893
3 What is the common ground for i7 processors? 2010-02-01T06:10:24.880
3 How many ALUs does a single core cpu have? 2010-05-18T19:56:28.533
3 Role of a bus bridge 2010-06-14T14:22:53.810
3 Harvard vs. Von Neumann architecture 2010-12-22T08:53:03.803
3 Virtual memory vs. Virtual address space 2011-09-06T17:42:18.860
3 Front Side Bus and RAM speed 2011-10-05T11:27:22.777
3 Instruction per Cycle vs Increased Cycle Count 2011-12-02T12:56:59.050
3 Why using hexadecimal in computer is better than using octal? 2012-01-03T05:39:58.157
3 Intel assembler/architecture documentation? 2012-12-13T12:40:12.510
3 How interrupts and privilege levels work? 2013-10-18T11:40:40.087
3 Why don't computers start loading the OS earlier in the boot process? 2014-02-01T04:09:46.427
3 Why do compilers have to be "smarter" for RISC instruction set architecture 2014-03-07T09:09:54.673
3 Harvard Architecture : How does it improve speed? 2014-04-07T03:30:11.430
3 Difference between “system-on-chip” and “CPU” 2014-06-11T06:19:09.510
3 Difference between a read and load 2015-07-18T12:29:52.613
3 X86 Address Space Controller? 2017-06-18T14:26:23.223
2 What is the maximum addressable memory? 2009-12-27T13:32:10.313
2 Does my motherboard support dual-core processors? 2010-02-10T15:55:01.280
2 How is the processing capacity of modern devices compared with that used decades ago? 2010-06-09T15:42:02.483
2 How to tell if an EXE is 32-bit or 64-bit? 2011-01-17T14:28:55.597
2 Bits of CPU, architecture and OS 2011-06-18T18:58:36.687
2 Northbridge + Southbridge = Unitedbridge? Is the division likely to persist? 2011-08-01T22:16:59.160
2 Processor Multimedia Extensions. How Useful are they actually? 2011-08-10T20:20:39.520
2 Hardware. What is the difference between a port and a bank? 2012-03-14T03:06:39.287
2 Is it possible to watch interrupts on Windows? 2012-07-15T07:58:06.840
2 VM sandboxing- what happens? 2012-10-04T13:01:12.320
2 Why so many modes are in CPU? 2013-08-20T20:11:55.887
2 What is meant by distributed architecture in the context of old fashioned 1960s mainframes? 2014-02-17T06:32:06.637
2 Why is this memory range on the PCI bus? 2014-03-01T23:54:28.703
2 How are reserved and ACPI NVS memory sizes counted? 2014-04-07T21:26:42.603