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Computer hardware components: CPU, GPU, RAM and ROM
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- 1A sound card is an internal computer expansion card which outputs sound that we can understand.
- 2A graphics processing unit (GPU), also occasionally called visual processing unit (VPU), is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display such as a TV screen.
- 3A CPU stands for Central processing unit and it is the hardware within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetical, logical, control and input/output operations of the system
- 4the mother broad is the main printed circuit board (PCB) found in computers and other expandable systems. It holds many of the crucial electronic components of the system, such as the central processing unit (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals.
- 5the ram stands for random access memory and it is and when storing info or data on to it it will be lost when the computer is turned off.
- 6the ROM stands for Read-Only Memory, ROM is a type of "built-in" memory that is used with computers and other electronic devices. As the name indicates, data stored in ROM may only be read; it is either modified with extreme difficulty or not at all.
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