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Edits made to hardware folder (#19536)

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* fix: update general hardware info

* fix: remove typos and update hard-drives

* fix: remove redundant sentence in GPU
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Sayyed Raza
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ A Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer th
![Intel Core i5 - Front](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Intel_i5-2500.jpg/247px-Intel_i5-2500.jpg) ![Intel Core i5 - Back](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Intel_i5-3330%2C_bottom.jpg/240px-Intel_i5-3330%2C_bottom.jpg)
### Expansion Cards (eg. GPU)
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.
An expansion card is an embedded circuit card that can be added to the motherboard to augument a computer's capability. It can either add capabilities, ex allow for a new type of I/O port, or upgrade existing ones, ex. faster ethernet connection. The most common type of expansion card is a GPU, or a graphical processing unit.
![Nvidia Titan XP](https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/nvidia-titan-x.jpg)