Hardware and software, the two key components of a computer. Hardware being the physicl parts of your computer help to dictate what specs your computer can push your software to achieve. Software in your computer is the 0'S and 1'S that allow for the imagery on your monitor to be displayed and so you are able to run programs such as chrome or word. There is a close relationship between the two, without software the hardware of your pc has no need to run and wihtout hardware the software has to platform to run off. there are two main types of software that when ran loads to your computers RAM.