How does Computer Hardware Work? 💻🛠🔬 [3D Animated Teardown]

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to journey through the inside of your computer? In this video, we're taking you on a 3D animated adventure to every piece of computer hardware inside a desktop computer. You'll also see a nanoscopic view of the transistors inside the CPU and GPU. This video is like a biology dissection lab; instead, we're opening up a computer and seeing all the various computer hardware inside.
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Table of Contents:
00:00 - 3D Computer Teardown
01:03 - Central Processing Unit CPU
03:12 - Motherboard
05:20 - CPU Cooler
06:00 - Desktop Power Supply
07:22 - Brilliant Sponsorship
08:52 - Graphics Card and GPU
11:52 - Computer Teardown Process
13:14 - DRAM
14:02 - Solid State Drives
15:04 - Hard Disk Drive HDD
15:52 - Computer Mouse
16:15 - Computer Keyboard
16:30 - Outro
Special thanks to Máximo Balestrini for help with the CPU & GPU VLSI Visualizations
github.com/mbalestrini/sky130...
Key Branches from this video are: How does DRAM Work? How do SSDs Work? How do Smartphone CPUs Work?
Erratum:
Animation: Mike Radjabov
Script: Teddy Tablante
Twitter: @teddytablante
Modeling: Prakash Kakadiya
Voice Over: Phil Lee
Sound Design: www.drilu.mx
Sound Effects and Music Editor: David Pinete
Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer: Luis Huesca
Animation built using Blender 3.4.1 www.blender.org/
References:
27 Main Parts of Motherboard and its Function ourtechroom.com/tech/parts-of...
Cortex-A77- Microarchitectures - ARM en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_hold...
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review - Pascal GPU Architecture www.guru3d.com/articles-pages...
Intel's 10th Generation Desktop CPUs have arrived - Still on 14nm arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/...
Intel Core i9 - 10850K Processor ark.intel.com/content/www/us/...
Insights into DDR5 Sub-Timings and Latencies www.anandtech.com/show/16143/...
Mechanical Keyboard Guide www.daskeyboard.com/blog/mech...
Nvidia GP102 www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs....
Teardown of a PC Power Supply www.righto.com/2021/05/teardo...
Wikipedia contributors. "Back End of Line". "Central Processing Unit". "Computers". "Dynamic Random-Access Memory". "Motherboard". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited March 22nd 2022
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