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Gaborone University College of Law and Proffessional Studies

The document discusses five key parts of a computer and their functions: 1) The motherboard connects and allows communication between all computer components. 2) The central processing unit controls operations and executes instructions from memory. 3) The graphic processing unit manipulates memory to accelerate image creation for displays. 4) Random access memory temporarily stores data and machine code for fast retrieval. 5) Hard disk drives permanently store digital data using magnetic platters or solid state flash memory.

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Gaborone University College of Law and Proffessional Studies

The document discusses five key parts of a computer and their functions: 1) The motherboard connects and allows communication between all computer components. 2) The central processing unit controls operations and executes instructions from memory. 3) The graphic processing unit manipulates memory to accelerate image creation for displays. 4) Random access memory temporarily stores data and machine code for fast retrieval. 5) Hard disk drives permanently store digital data using magnetic platters or solid state flash memory.

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GABORONE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW AND

PROFFESSIONAL STUDIES

NAME: BAHLOMI BINO KGOMOTSO

DERPARTMENT: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

SUBJECT: COMMUNICATION

LECTURER: MR RUKA

DUE DATE: 19/09/20


DISCUSS ANY FIVE PARTS OF A COMPUTER AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

A part is a section which when combined with others makes up the whole of something. A
computer is an electronic device used to process and store data or information. Therefore parts of
computer are a combination of electronic sections used to process and store data.

A motherboard is where all components of a computer communicate through a circuit board. It is


the main circuit of a computer also known as a mainboard or logic board. It holds everything in
the computer to work. Devices such as keyboard, mouse and speakers get plugged in
motherboard for them to perform their duties. Each motherboard has a collection of chips and
controllers known as chip-set. Attached to a motherboard is the central processing unit, random
access memory and USB ports. Motherboard allocates power to aid between the central
processing unit and random access memory and all computer components. There are multiple
types of motherboard design to fit different types and size of computers. Each motherboard is
designed to work with specific types of processors and memory. This means that they don’t work
with every processor and type of memory. Even though that’s the case hard drivers are mostly
universal and work with the majority of motherboards regardless of the type of a band.

Central processing unit is a part of computer in which operations are controlled and executed.
Executed meaning put into effect/ perform a skilful action. Principal components of a CPU
includes the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that performs arithmetic and logic operations, process
registers that supply operands to the ALU operations and control unit that carry instructions from
memory. Central processing unit has four basic functions to perform a task being to fetch
instruction from the program memory. After fetching information the central processing unit will
determine what to do with the data and this step is the decode step. Thirdly we ha execute. This
is where operations and calculations instructed by the computer program. It is referred to as the
brains of the computer. It is responsible for executing a sequence of stored instructions,

Graphic processing unit is an electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory
to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.
They are used in mobile phones, personal computer, and workstation and game consoles. They
have parallel structures which make them more effective than the central processing unit. In
personal computers a graphic processing unit can be present on a video card or embedded on the
motherboard. The graphic processing unit is very important component of a gaming system and
in many cases even more important than a central processing unit. Graphic processing unit
improves a computers performance. All computers have a graphics card either built into the
motherboard. A computer can be turned on without a graphic processing unit but performance
will be inferior.

Random access memory is a form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any
order, typically used to store data and machine code. There are two types of RAM. In static is a
type of RAM, data is stored using the state of a six transistor memory cell. Static is mostly used
as a cache memory for the processor, Central processing unit. Dynamic RAM allows you to store
each bit of data in a separate capacity within a specific circuit. It is used in many modern desktop
computers. It need to be refreshed with voltage regularly or else it loses the information stored in
it. It allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the
physical location of data in the memory. It enables a computer to be fast making work become
easier. Random access memory also helps the system support software.

Hard drive disk is an electro mechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store
and retrieve digital data using one or more rid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic
material. It is the hardware component that stores all digital content. It stores documents,
pictures, music, programs, videos, application preferences representing digital content stored on
a hard drive. They can be external or internal. There are two general types of hard drives ONE
BEING Hard Disk Drive (HDD) in which one or more rotating disks are used and rely on
magnetic storage. The other type is Solid State Drives (SSD) which have no moving mechanical
part, but use flash memory like the kind found in USB flash drives.

Computer parts are important since they speed up the performance of a computer that also saving
our time when using computers. Also they keep our information safe an easy to check them
whenever in need.

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