Hardware
- Created by: Basital
- Created on: 10-03-17 19:22
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- Hardware
- CPU
- Processes data
- Undertakes instructions given by applications and inputs
- Motherboard
- Links CPU to the memory and other hardware
- Graphic Card
- Contains a processor like the CPU
- Can be used to process the the graphic portion of the processing load
- Hard Drive
- Stores a majority of your data
- The unit that houses the hard disk, where data is physically stored
- Flash Memory
- Quickly accessible memory
- Can be easily rewritten
- Retains data even without power
- ROM
- Form of memory
- Non volatile
- Contains pre-installed data that cannot be changed
- Read only memory
- RAM
- Random access memory
- Form of memory
- When a program is opened, it gets loaded from the hard drive into the RAM
- Reading data from RAM is much quicker, making the program's use quicker
- CPU
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