The control unit monitors and controls communications between hardware attached to the computers
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what is the purpose of a motherboard?
the backbone that ties the computer's components together at one spot and allows them to talk to each other.
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what is the purpose of ALU?
Where all calculations and decisions are made
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What is the CMOS battery?
Provides limited power to the low level systems in the motherboard whilst the computer is turned off.
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what is the processor?
The place where the processor orginally is placed. E.g. a CPU.
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what are slots?
Used for attaching storage or memory.
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Connectors
Allows devices to be connected such as expansion cards.
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Heat Sink
Takes away heat from inside the PC
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Ports:
This component allows external devices to be connected. Such as headphones, or controllers.
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Overclocking
This is a method used by a computer to make the pc run at a faster rate and be ran at higher specs
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Water cooling
Water cooling is used when the PC gets too hot so it takes water to a high-speed fan and cools down the most priority parts of a PC to make sure it can run without blowing it up.
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On-board graphics
An on-board graphic card is a card to improve the quality of your game so that it can run smoothly and feel realistic.
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Registers
Small area of storage that is used for fast access used by the CPU
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Cache
A cache helps speed up the process by storing frequently used instructions and data
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Random Access Memory (RAM)
RAM holds all other data and instructions
that the computer may need to open and run applications or programmes.
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Read Only Memory (ROM)
Contains permanent instructions to make sure the computer is in correct form and that there are no faults with the hardware of the PC.
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what is a flash drive?
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Technology that relates to how much memory can be accessed
Saves the data.
Data can be transferred to other devices.
Risk of losing the Flash drive
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what is a solid state drive?
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Integrated circuit that uses flash memory to access memory which is faster and more reliable rather than most storage devices
Uses less power.
Last longer.
More expensive than an HDD.
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what is a magnetic drive?
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Commonly used storage device that is used in traditional hard drives.
Cheaper than solid state alternatives
Access rates are slower.
Damaged easily
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what is cloud storage?
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Storage type that can store data.
Secure.
Your files only.
Pay for expertise
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Card 2
Front
what is the purpose of a motherboard?
Back
the backbone that ties the computer's components together at one spot and allows them to talk to each other.
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