Computer Hardware

Computer Hardware

1. Hard Drive

   • This is where Data/Files are stored. Large storage space, but they are slow accesing the data
   • HDD
     • Hard Disk Drive
   • SSD
     • Solid State Drive

2. Mother Board

   • Wide and flat circuit board that all the other component plugs into. It is the component which allows others to send each other electric curance in form of data and communocate between them.

3. CPU

   • Central Processing Unit or Processor.  Very low data storage but this is  where data is processed and arranged, calculations are made.  This is mostly where the code is ran. 

4. GPU

   • Graphic Processing Unit. It is the component that decides how the graphics will look like 

5. Power Supply

   • Almost always located at the bottom. It is plugged inot the oulet and provides every component with electricity

6. RAM

   • Random Access memory or Memory. Small storage space but fast access to it.

7. Case

   • A big plastic box which stores the components

8. Internal wireless cards

9. Cooling systems

10. Storage Devices

    • DVD
    • CD's
    • Flash Cards
    • USB