Which book do you suggest me?

[shahbaz200]

I am confused about computers. How the hell piece of metals know how to do what? Transistors of CPU, how they work? How they know where to send signals and when etc? What their caches do etc? How RAMs/HDD components work, how things are stored? I have many questions regarding hardware, can anyone know a book that covers hardware of PC in nice, simple and detailed way. Thanks.

 

[theyeti87]

Wikipedia is a great place to start.

Transistors are doors for electricity, opening and closing millions of times a second (Hz). Everything going on inside of a computer is binary. RAM is plural on its own. Storage depends on what type of storage medium being used.

 

[hdmark]

id google text books for computer majors. not sure which they use tho :/ but ya I just use wikipedia

 

[JamesSneed]

This is a question that is very difficult to answer. You are asking about how the hardware works not just how to put together a PC. People spend years learning what this entails. Not only are you dealing electrical and mechanical engineering level topics but also some physics once you dig deep enough. So deepening on how much knowledge you have and how deep you want to go can change everything you need to look into.

Stanford computer science program, you will be interested in week 4:
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/

Here is a decent book that goes into a little bit of detail:
http://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Engineering-Computer/dp/1492981540/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440171076&sr=8-1&keywords=Computer+Engineering