System Unit:Computing Components

• Module Contents
• describe the system units
• motherboard components
• processor
• memory expansion slots and cards
• ports
• power supply
• Objective
• familiarize with the system components to help make a wise decision whe buying and using computers
• Components of the system unit
• motherboard
• processor
• memory
• hard disk
• expansion bus
• video cards
• ports
• other drives and devices
• the motherboard
• processor socket
• intel and other processors
• memory slots
• chip set
• ports
• expansion slots
• processor
• intel
• Pentium dual core
• Pentium quad core
• i3,i5,i7
• Atom
• AMD
• Nvidia
• ARM
• Qualcomm
• Motorola
•  processor components
• ALU
• registers
• not often shown or mentioned, but present in thee CPU
• Control Unit
• Cache
• L1, L2 etc.