How does information flow through the computer?

Answer by The Pro.
Submitted on 10/13/2003
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As far as what? The computer has a hard disk. the hard disk is a bigger version of a floppy disk..if you ever open a floppy disk you will see it has 8 rings on there.. the way information is stored is by the use of clusters. Anytime you save something on a floppy the disk spins and it saves little clusters of information through out the 8 rings and it connects the clusters trhough small lines called links.. A hard disk does the same thing but with much more room for more information. Anytime you try to access a file it saves a log called registry and it remainds the computer of where the file is, once you pulle the file all the links connected to it will be accessed as well..This is why different files require different amounts of memory cache to run the file because as the file gets bigger more links are created... there is this website where you can go to find how things work to explain it better..

Answer by Sales@PCdeals.CJB.com
Submitted on 2/4/2004
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The informations flows within a computer from the hard disk to the Southbridge chip(drive controller) on the motherboard then it goes to the Northbridge Chip (system memory controller) then it goes to the DRAM Chips (on the memory stick) then it goes to the CPU Chip Level 2 Cache Buffer SRAM then it goes to the CPU Chip Level 1 Primary Execution Cache Buffer SRAM Memory then it goes to the CPU Chip Execution Units for Processing and gets sent back to the Northbridge which either sends it back to the RAM to be stored for later use or through the AGP Slot (Accelerated Graphics Port) into the VRAM, then on to the GPU (graphics controller), then on to the RAMDAC which converts it to a signal which can be interpreted by your display. This is worst case scenario, in the best case scenario some of these steps would be bypassed. Find cheap $258 systems like this at http://PCdeals.CJB.com

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How does information flow through the computer?

Answer by tyTASTY
Submitted on 11/15/2004
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It gets its lazy ass up and walks through...GOD!!!

Answer by yo mama
Submitted on 11/15/2004
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it doe'ntsuck it's self

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Submitted on 6/9/2005
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