Motherboard
- also called as "system board", "logic board", "mainboard" or "MOBO".
- It holds many of the crucial electronic components of the system.
INTERNAL PARTS OF A SYSTEM UNIT
Processor
- is the computer's brain
- It allows the processing of numeric data, meaning information entered in binary form, and the execution of instructions stored in memory.
Power Supply
Graphic Cards
-enables the computer to improve the graphics
-responsible for displaying the computer's graphics on a monitor
Heat Sink
- cooling device
- one of the important device
in a computer
-to stop the computer in
getting overheated
Hard Drive or Hard Disk Drive
- magnetic storage device
-it is the permanent storage of data.
capacity = billions of bytes or Gigabytes
speed = revolution per minute (RPM)
Floppy Drive
Internal Memory
- RAM
- use 3.5 inch floppy disk
- floppy disk can store 720 KB or 1.44MB
Optical Drive
- rectangle piece component
- volatile memory
-ROM
- Read Only Memory
- non-volatile memory
- use laser to read the data on the optical media