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| Printed Circuit Board. Electrically connects electronic components using conductive tracks e.g mother board |
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Known as the mainboard, system board,
is the main printed circuit inside a PC |
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central processing unit, is the
hardware within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer |
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| arithmetic and logic unit (ALU) is a digital circuit that performs integer arithmetic and logical operations. |
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| a small amount of storage available as part of a CPU or other digital processor |
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| random access memory - temport storage of Operating System, Applications and data. Wiped when power is off |
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| Read-only memory - internal memory where the contents cannot be wiped. Hold POST, boot strap programmes. |
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electronic non-volatile computer storage medium that can be
electrically erased and reprogrammed. Content is not lost when power is off. USB pen drive |
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video adapter, display card, graphics
board, send graphics to monitor from motherboard |
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| an audio card, internal computer expansion card that takes the input and output of audio signals to and from a computer to speakers/headphones |
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video adapter, display card, graphics
board, send graphics to monitor from motherboard, can also connect to recorder |
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| help keep electronics and computers from overheating. Usually placed ontop of a CPU |
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| Used to cool the CPU (central processing unit) and extract hot air from the base unit. |
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| means 'no moving parts'. Solid-state storage devices are based on electronic circuits with no moving part, very fast |
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| D, CDROW,DVD, DVDROM, CD Rw, DVDrw, Blu ray |
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| Hard Disk Drives, magnetic storage of digital data. |
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speed at which a CPU is running. It is
measured in Hertz. e.g. 1.2 GHertz |
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| used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average time to access memory. |
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| multiple processing cores |
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| component with two or more independent actual central processing units (CPU) |
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| As the CPU heats up it takes more power to keep it cool. |
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| Integrated circuit (IC) that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system, into a single chip, mobile phone |
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graphics processing unit (GPU), computer chip that performs rapid
mathematical calculations, mainly for the purpose of rendering images. |
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| measure of battery performance and longevity. More powerful components shorter the life. |
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| Copper connections transferring data from CPU to RAM to Output etc. |
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