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Best hardware Book - Ever
If you are wondering what exactly goes on in your PC's hardware, then Upgrading and Repairing PC's 19th Edition is exactly what you need. It also comes with a bonus DVD with 2hrs of footage including how to build a PC. So for example, a CPU's architecture in terms of its data bus, address bus, internal pipeline and registers are also available to determine which CPU you should look at:
Amazon.com: Upgrading and Repairing PCs (19th Edition) (9780789739544): Scott Mueller: Books
As an aside, Windows Internals 6th edition is coming - all the architecture of 7 explained.