Is there a video or a site that contains basic computer hardware knowledge?

[AniJan]

I'm completely new to tech, so I want to know the basics and essentials of computer hardware. 

If you can recommend me a site or video that gives off the basics and essentials of computer hardware, that'd be great. This is a tech forum and I want to try my best to help the community. Thanks.

[Mira Yurizaki]

There's the Tech Quickie YouTube channel. And Wikipedia. There's also the Guides and Tutorials subforum if you can pick out the actual guides and tutorials from the requests.

 

However, it's important to understand the material you consume. Don't just consume it and regurgitate it later.

[Tsuki]

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EDIT: helps to have the right link

[AniJan]

 

On 8/4/2017 at 7:56 PM, M.Yurizaki said:

There's the Tech Quickie YouTube channel. And Wikipedia. There's also the Guides and Tutorials subforum if you can pick out the actual guides and tutorials from the requests.

 

However, it's important to understand the material you consume. Don't just consume it and regurgitate it later.

Er, do you know what the essentials are?

 

Also, I watched the contrast ratio video and I'm a bit confused. I'm not sure how the high contrast ratios work. How does the high dynamic contrast ratio differ from the typical contrast ratios?

[Mira Yurizaki]

14 minutes ago, AniJan said:

Er, do you know what the essentials are?

This is a rather broad topic to cover. Sure there are things like common hardware in electronics which can include the CPU, RAM, storage... but then you get into other topics like what's clock speed, the difference between a bit and a byte, what does an OS do, etc.

 

If you really don't want to sift through a lot of stuff, I can provide you with this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/HowVideoGameSpecsWork

14 minutes ago, AniJan said:

Also, I watched the contrast ratio video and I'm a bit confused. I'm not sure how the high contrast ratios work. How does the high dynamic contrast ratio differ from the typical contrast ratios?

Well to start, there's no such thing as "high dynamic contrast ratio". There's dynamic contrast ratio and there's high dynamic range, which does include contrast ratios in the mix.

 

But let's just go with what typical (or static) contrast ratio and dynamic contrast ratio is.

 

Static contrast ratio is the ratio between the brightest point on the screen vs. the darkest point at a constant back light setting. Essentially the ratio of brightness between black and white.

 

Dynamic contrast ratio is the ratio of the brightest point at the highest backlight setting vs. the darkest point at the darkest backlight setting. Essentially it's a way to inflate the contrast ratio spec and desn't really mean anything useful.

[Not_Sean]

Get your hands on the CompTIA A+ book, should be able to grab one online or ebay super cheap and read a chapter at a time. I only did my A+ after working in IT for a few years and been building my own PC's since i was like 10 and saw it as basic stuff but a few guys on the course said they really learnt a lot.

 

And hell once you read it do some test exams online and if you want do the real exam and get your first IT qualification.  

[AniJan]

Just now, Not_Sean said:

Get your hands on the CompTIA A+ book, should be able to grab one online or ebay super cheap and read a chapter at a time. I only did my A+ after working in IT for a few years and been building my own PC's since i was like 10 and saw it as basic stuff but a few guys on the course said they really learnt a lot.

 

And hell once you read it do some test exams online and if you want do the real exam and get your first IT qualification.  

is it good to take notes?

[AniJan]

Just now, Not_Sean said:

Get your hands on the CompTIA A+ book, should be able to grab one online or ebay super cheap and read a chapter at a time. I only did my A+ after working in IT for a few years and been building my own PC's since i was like 10 and saw it as basic stuff but a few guys on the course said they really learnt a lot.

 

And hell once you read it do some test exams online and if you want do the real exam and get your first IT qualification.  

 

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

This is a rather broad topic to cover. Sure there are things like common hardware in electronics which can include the CPU, RAM, storage... but then you get into other topics like what's clock speed, the difference between a bit and a byte, what does an OS do, etc.

 

If you really don't want to sift through a lot of stuff, I can provide you with this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/HowVideoGameSpecsWork

Well to start, there's no such thing as "high dynamic contrast ratio". There's dynamic contrast ratio and there's high dynamic range, which does include contrast ratios in the mix.

 

But let's just go with what typical (or static) contrast ratio and dynamic contrast ratio is.

 

Static contrast ratio is the ratio between the brightest point on the screen vs. the darkest point at a constant back light setting. Essentially the ratio of brightness between black and white.

 

Dynamic contrast ratio is the ratio of the brightest point at the highest backlight setting vs. the darkest point at the darkest backlight setting. Essentially it's a way to inflate the contrast ratio spec and desn't really mean anything useful.

Does anyone know a particular order I should watch all these tech videos? I'm getting so confused from different videos mentioning things I don't know, then me watching a video about the thing I don't know which THEN AGAIN mentions things I don't know, repeat and etc.

[Not_Sean]

16 hours ago, AniJan said:

is it good to take notes?

Well its a whole text book, and its pretty comprehensive on everything computers, all the parts inside networking (Basics) and even printers and such. Realyl reccomend it specially if the videos are already confusing you, no short cuts that videos will give you. 

 

IT is all about understanding the concept of how things work as thats the best way to troubleshoot errors instead of just always googling and getting the solution without understanding it and it just does it again in a weeks time.  

[Marinatall_Ironside]

Also check out Pluralsight.com. If you're in college like me, chances are your bookstore sells 12-month codes to use for unlimited access, otherwise you get a free 10-day trial.

 

Mind you it'll run you USD $299.99/year (I forgot what the billing rate is on a monthly basis, someone fill me on that one), so be sure you've got 300 to blow for a year of Pluralsight.

[ErykYT3]

On 8/5/2017 at 1:56 AM, M.Yurizaki said:

There's the Tech Quickie YouTube channel. And Wikipedia. There's also the Guides and Tutorials subforum if you can pick out the actual guides and tutorials from the requests.

 

However, it's important to understand the material you consume. Don't just consume it and regurgitate it later.

Agreed, I've found the Tech Quickie channel to be very infromative.  

[Ithanul]

Professor Messer on YouTube has some decent videos on computer exams which have some nice information about computer hardware.

 

If you know anyone in the military, see if they can get access to the FedVTE.  Information dense videos on computer exams are there.  The guy who talks in the videos put the knowledge into how it plays in civilian side enterprise hardware and military side hardware.  Pretty darn good videos.

[Gandek]

I always find browsing this forum to be the best way