title: Hardware-specific questions
body: <p>I'm good at programming yet I feel like I don't know enough about the architecture of the hardware I'm working on.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>What does the Northbridge on the mainboard do?</li>
  <li><p>What does the L2 cache of my processor do?</p></li>
  <li><p>Can Windows XP use multiple processors? Not in terms of concrete multitasking in all programs but using the capacity of all cores if needed instead of always only one core.</p></li>
  <li><p>How can my processor/mainboard interact with multiple kinds of graphics/sound cards?</p></li>
  </ul>