Culture astronomy is the set off interdisciplinary fields studying astronomy of current or ancient societies and cultures. Looking at the night sky the ancient Greeks found two primarily kinds of celestial objects; the fixed stars and the wandering stars. They knew about the five planets visible to naked eye, but they didn’t understand them as planets in our sense of the word. The word planet came from a Greek adjective meaning wandering, used to modify the word star. The Histories by Herodotus [484 B.C to 425 B.C] shows other discoveries made by the Greek. They discovered; that the planets orbit the sun, the sizes and distances of the sun and the moon, calculation of the earth’s circumference [Pythagoras], and the first astronomical calculator [Antikythera Mechanism]. The Greeks accomplished a lot not only in the astronomy sector, but in other first made discoveries. They were some of the first people to understand astronomy. They realized the earth was a sphere and tried to measure its size. They also created an idea of a geocentric solar system that, while incorrect, helped us understand the universe for hundreds of years.
Get the right socket for your CPU: You can find great CPUs from either Intel or AMD, but whatever processor your choose, make sure that your board has the correct socket to support it. The latest mainstream AMD chips use AM4 sockets while current Intel 8th Gen Core CPUs require an LGA 1151v2 sockets.
Smaller boards = fewer slots and features. Motherboards come in three main sizes, from largest to smallest: ATX, Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX (Yes, Mini is smaller than Micro). You can use a smaller chassis with the micro or mini boards, but you’ll have to settle for fewer PCIe slots, RAM banks and other connectors.
You can spend under £100: You can find a good motherboard for less than £100, but if you want to overclock an Intel chip or you need a lot of ports, you will have to spend more, usually up to £150. High-end desktop chips like AMD Threadripper require expensive £200+ motherboards.
Pay for built-in Wi-Fi, high-end ports only if you need them. Don’t spend extra for wireless if you are using a wired connection. You can future proof your PC by getting USB 3.1 Gen 2 and / or Thunderbolt 3 support.
Most motherboards come in three sizes:
ATX is the larger standard and has the most space for plugs and slots (definitely more suitable if you are planning on including many additional components and peripherals).
Micro-ATX is 2.4-inches shorter, which means less room for expansion slots (expansion slots allow you to add additional components which need for additional graphics, video, sound cards).
Mini-ITX can make for a tiny PC, but you’ll usually only have room for one add-in card (like a graphics card), and fewer connectors for storage and RAM.
At Kings Monkton School
Within desktop computers at Kings Monkton School (KMS) we needed a motherboard which was suitable to our processor. However, we also needed to take into account that we wouldn’t have to connect multiple graphics, sound or video cards and will still want to be able to use deskspace. Therefore, we didn’t use the larger motherboards. This meant that we could keep the desk space and save economically too.
BIOS
The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is the program the CPU uses when you press the power button to start the computer system. It manages the flow of data between the computer’s operating syste
