A few questions about CPU's and monitors

erikdude27 · Dec 3, 2014

I understand that the main difference between RISC and CISC architecture. RISC is more power efficient, but less powerful - while CISC is less power efficient, it is a lot more powerful.

How is all these organised - could you please group these and briefly explain how they interact?

- RISC
- CISC
- x86
- x64
- ARM
- Chipsets such as Z97, haswell, etc

Also, when it comes to monitors:

is LED a subset of LCD, like LCD LED? And IPS technology is used to control the pixels? (similar to what Apple developed in their new 5K imac??)

Thanks a lot for some help on getting an overview on this - it is much appreciated!

Best regards,
Erik

photonboy · Dec 3, 2014

You're asking a bit much for a support forum don't you think?

Wikipedia can answer pretty much all of this for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86

*Note that "x86" is frequently and incorrectly used to mean 32-bit. No. It should be x86_32 or x86_64 (the latter meaning an x86 CPU which supports 64-bit extensions).

LED:
1) LED is the backlight
2) LCD is the panel that filters the backlight and creates the pixels
3) IPS is one of the LCD panel formats (as are TN, PLS etc) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPS_panel

*Some people say "LED monitor" or "LCD monitor" when these generally mean the same thing. Before LED backlights we had CCFL tubes so technically it was "CCFL LCD" as opposed to "LED LCD".

erikdude27 · Dec 3, 2014

photonboy :

That cleared things out - thanks! So the LED is simply a normal, white light that lights up the LCD panel which filters the light and contains the pixels?

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