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Im sure in this case Google is your friend. Im sure there are wikis devoted to this among other knowledge bases.
Ya, i googled it but all i got was tutorials on how to build a pc and how to put an OS on one. No real info on how the metal on a motherboard and cpu plus gpu with ram makes a pc do what it does.
Your google is broken...:lol:
"How does ram work?"
https://www.quora.com/How-does-ram-work
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/ram.htm
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-computer-memory-works.html
Alright so ram, gpus, and motherboards work based off of binary code and the binary code is ran though the system via capacitors which send out electrical impulses. So how do these electrical impulses turn into effects on a screen and process information. Also how did they program the first computer to recognize these impulses? That is if i interpreted everything correctly lol
I really don't like the concept of "send out electrical impulses" - that's sort of a misunderstanding. I had these very same questions as you until I started taking college courses on this stuff this semester.
Forget about capacitors for now, you seem to be more interested in digital logic rather than analog circuitry if you want to know more about computers working. We can start at the
very lowest level, which would just be a bunch of analog circuits. But it's better to start at a level low enough in the digital realm.
I would first learn about
logic gates. Understand them, understand them well. AND, OR, NOR, NAND, XOR. These logic gates are made out of transistors, so transistors are a
lower level circuit element than logic gates.
Computers are just about combining small things to make bigger things. You don't always need to know
how those small things work, just what they do. If you do want to learn how those smaller things work, then you end up having to learn what even smaller things do, without knowing how
they work. Eventually you get to the bottom which is raw physics...
So yeah, logic gates are pretty important.
latches and
flip flops (flip flops are made out of latches, which are made out of gates, which are made out of transistors) will give you an idea how data is actually stored and modified. Latches and flip flops are made of gates, so learning gates first is a must.
Edit: And obviously knowing this stuff just scratches the surface, but once you kind of learn about it you sort of get these "aha!" moments where you start understanding how computers actually work.