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
https://github.com/mbalestrini/sky130_blender_renders_tutorial

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 https://www.blender.org/

References:
27 Main Parts of Motherboard and its Function https://ourtechroom.com/tech/parts-of-motherboard/

Cortex-A77- Microarchitectures - ARM https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/cortex-a77

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review - Pascal GPU Architecture https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce-gtx-1080-ti-review,6.html

Intel's 10th Generation Desktop CPUs have arrived - Still on 14nm https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/intels-comet-lake-desktop-cpus-are-here/

Intel Core i9 - 10850K Processor https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/205904/intel-core-i910850k-processor-20m-cache-up-to-5-20-ghz.html

Insights into DDR5 Sub-Timings and Latencies https://www.anandtech.com/show/16143/insights-into-ddr5-subtimings-and-latencies

Mechanical Keyboard Guide https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/mechanical-keyboard-guide/

Nvidia GP102 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gp102.g798#:~:text=NVIDIA's%20GP102%20GPU%20uses%20the,CUDA%206.1%20can%20be%20used.

Teardown of a PC Power Supply https://www.righto.com/2021/05/teardown-of-pc-power-supply.html

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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