HARDWARE

HARDWARE

1. physical parts of a computer and related devices (all the parts you can physically touch)

2. Internal Components

   • Motherboard:
     • main circuit board of a computer.
     • It holds the CPU, the memory chips and various connections
   • Video card:
     • a circuit board that generates video output to the monitor.
     • Video cards have their own processor and memory.
   • Sound card:
     • a circuit board that deals with the input and output of the sound
   • Internal memory ROM and RAM
   • Backing storage – the hard drive
     • hard drive
     • sdd drive

3. External components:

   • monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, webcam, touch screen, microphones, speakers
   • connectors