Components

    Cards (5)

    • Motherboard
      connects and controls all of its internal components and external peripherals and allows them to communicate with each other
    • CPU
      interprets, processes and executes instructions from the hardware and software programs running on the device, and transforms data input into more usable information output.
    • RAM
      volatile memory that keeps data easily accessible for the processor to find quickly to complete immediate processing tasks. it is used for storing data that is currently being worked with
    • ROM CHIP
      Holds the boot program/BIOS that is used to start the computer. It executes before the OS is loaded from the hard disk drive.
    • Cache
      A smaller, faster memory, closer to a processor core, which stores copies of the data from frequently used main memory locations
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