Main Components of a Computer

Main Components of a Computer

1. The motherboard

   • Its a circuit board that has the slots for most of the main components in a computer

2. Graphics Card (GPU)

   • A chip made for rendering images, animations and video for the computer

3. PowerSupply unit

   • This is a component that provides the computer with information.

4. C,P.U

   • This is known as the central processing unit and is effectively the brain of the computer.

5. HDD

   • The hard disk drive is a data storage place.

6. RAM

   • Is known as the random access memory and is the short term memory.

7. Fan/Heat sink

   • Fan is so the computer doesn't over heat and keeps all the components cool.
     • The heat sink absorbs the heat

8. ROM

   • Once a piece of memory is put onto the ROM it cannot be removed and can only be read.

9. Sound card

   • a device which can be slotted into a computer to allow the use of audio components