Personal Computer Hardware
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A computer's hardware components are the parts you can touch. Computer hardware is the physical part of the computer. The smallest hardware component that can still perform computations is the computer chip. A computer chip is composed of semi-conductors and tiny wires laid out on top of thin wafers of silicon. Layers of wire and semi-conductors sandwiched between layers of silicon comprise a computer chip. The semi-conductors can be configured to represent either a 0 or a 1 when electricity is supplied to them. The configuration of most computer chips cannot be changed once they are built and most kinds of hardware are thus said to be 'hard-wired'.
Examples of computer hardware would include:
- Mainboard
- Basic Input Output System (BIOS)
- Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- Memory (RAM)
- Video Processor
- Sound Processor
- Hard Drives
- Floppy Disks
- Disk Drives
- CD-ROMs
- DVD-ROMs
- Adapter Cards
Primary Components
- Chassis
- Display / Monitor
- Adaptor Cards
- Peripherals
Chassis Components
- Mainboards
- Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- Memory (RAM)
- Disk Drives
- CD-ROM
- DVD-ROM
- Floppy Drive
PERIPHERALS
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