The brain of the computer is CPU or Hard Drive?

[DemonicHeart]

what exactly is the brain of computer? is it the cpu or hard drive? 

one will argue that is processor since it "processes"  everything in the pc.

 

but to me the real brains of the pc is the hard drive, where "memory" is stored.

The hard drive also do its own processing since it has its own chip, also the hard drive is where all the information "intelligence" is stored.. 

 

Whats you're thoughts on this subject?

 

 

i'll say this whenever you change hard drive in your pc its like anew. its not the same.. its like a new born you have to grow again.

 

for example: getting all your information again, teaching it to do certain things. and whenever the hard drive crashes its like being brain damaged and need a fix.. 

[79wjd]

CPU

[synnapt]

both cpu is thinking,

hard drive is memory

[DemonicHeart]

Just now, synnapt said:

both cpu is thinking,

hard drive is memor

you cant have two brains lol.

 

there must be one  

[Alesek]

different parts of pc would be different parts of brain imho. but to answer your question, it is CPU. you dont need a drive to run the pc

[DemonicHeart]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

CPU

if a cpu is a brain it must be a pretty dead brain since you can't put any information on it

[synnapt]

Just now, DemonicHeart said:

you cant have two brains lol.

 

there must be one  

no meaning 2 brains ita part of one brain only diffrent parts of it

[79wjd]

Just now, DemonicHeart said:

if a cpu is a brain it must be a pretty dead brain since you can't put any information on it

And if the HDD is the brain you must also be pretty brain dead since it will literally take a lifetime to process anything. 

[DemonicHeart]

1 minute ago, Alesek said:

different parts of pc would be different parts of brain imho. but to answer your question, it is CPU. you dont need a drive to run the pc

how exactly will you able to run a pc without a hard drive? place explain

[DemonicHeart]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

And if the HDD is the brain you must also be pretty brain dead since it will literally take a lifetime to process anything. 

can still process.. no matter how slow.. 

 

 

[synnapt]

Just now, synnapt said:

no meaning 2 brains ita part of one brain only diffrent parts of it

if u wanna go farther whit it ram is the short therm memory

[reniat]

I would argue the "intelligence" is stored in the cpu and instruction set. In the same way a thought is different neurons firing, a different set of logic gates creating a "thought" is much more like brain activity to me than storing raw data.

[Alesek]

Just now, DemonicHeart said:

how exactly will you able to run a pc without a hard drive? place explain

unplug your hdd and you will see. it turns on and tells you that you are missing a bootable device. you can still go to bios though.

 

now remove the cpu and try to turn it on

[DemonicHeart]

Just now, synnapt said:

if u wanna go farther whit it ram is the short therm memory

you can't store anything inside a ram.. a ram is help for the cpu

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, DemonicHeart said:

how exactly will you able to run a pc without a hard drive? place explain

 

1 minute ago, DemonicHeart said:

can still process.. no matter how slow.. 

The CPU has cache that can be used as storage as well.

[synnapt]

1 minute ago, DemonicHeart said:

you can't store anything inside a ram.. a ram is help for the cpu

aperently u dont know annything about a computer then,

ram has volitile memory

[BloodyWaters]

CPU, Mobo, RAM, Storage, GPU all work together as the brain.

 

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, DemonicHeart said:

you can't store anything inside a ram.. a ram is help for the cpu

By that same logic an HDD can't process anything either.

[pagani123]

imo the entire computer is the brain. with the case being the skull 

[DemonicHeart]

Just now, Alesek said:

unplug your hdd and you will see. it turns on and tells you that you are missing a bootable device. you can still go to bios though.

 

now remove the cpu and try to turn it on

 

but you stll can't do anything tho lol..

 

a human can stay alive without an active brain.. staying alive with other parts of the body. example "heart" 

[reniat]

 

1 minute ago, DemonicHeart said:

you can't store anything inside a ram.. a ram is help for the cpu

Well actually unless you are loading something too large, everything is stored inside the ram. The cpu will only ever fetch data from the hard drive if ram is full, which is rare for normal usage (unless you just have too little ram, but that's more user error than anything else)

[__MEC-777!]

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nether....

[Guest]

It's an analogy... Obviously there's going to be some compromise on logic. 

 

The CPU calculates  - it can be compared to being the brain

The HDD stores data - it can be compared to being the brain

 

Not really sure what you're looking for.... 

[Ryujin2003]

A PC will POST without an HDD, but will fail to POST without GPU. RAM and MB are more like your spinal cord, attaching everything together and allowing the brain to communicate to it.

[79wjd]

7 minutes ago, DemonicHeart said:

 

but you stll can't do anything tho lol..

 

But you can. A CPU can technically store everything in cache and function just fine at processing data. The total storage used by the Apollo computer was orders of magnitude less than modern CPUs have in cache alone.