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MAIN PARTS OF COMPUTER SYSTEM

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In computing, an optical disc
drive (ODD) is a disk drive that
uses laser light or
Optical disk electromagnetic waves within or
drive near the visible light
spectrum as part of the process
of reading or writing data to or
from optical disc.
A hard disk drive - (often
shortened as hard drive), is a
non-volatile storage device
which stores digitally encoded
data on rapidly rotating
platters with magnetic
Hard disk drive
surfaces. Strictly speaking,
"drive" refers to a device
distinct from its medium, such
as a tape drive and its tape, or
a floppy disk drive and its
floppy disk.
Stands for "Solid State Drive." An
SSD is a type of mass storage
device similar to a hard disk
drive (HDD). It supports reading
and writing data and maintains
Solid state drive stored data in a permanent state
even without power. Internal
SSDs connect to a computer like
a hard drive, using
standard SATA connections.

RAM is an abbreviation for


Random Access Memory. It
usually refers to "temporary"
memory, as when the system is
shut down, the memory is lost.
Random access
This is why the memory is
memory
referred to as being "random,"
as any piece of information can
be circulated through the
memory regardless of its
location and its relation to any
other information within the
RAM. The first of the many
RAMs to come in the future was
created in 1951 and was used
until the late 1960s, early 1970s
and until now.

It is the “heart of the computer”


All parts of the computer is
Motherboard
mainly connected to the
motherboard.

A central processing unit (CPU)


is the electronic circuitry within
a computer that carries out
the instructions of a computer
program by performing the
basic arithmetic, logic, controlling,
and input/output (I/O) operations
specified by the instructions. The
computer industry has used the
CPU
term "central processing unit" at
least since the early 1960s.
Traditionally, the term "CPU" refers
to a processor, more specifically to
its processing unit and control
unit (CU), distinguishing these core
elements of a computer from
external components such as main
memory and I/O circuitry.

A power supply unit (or PSU)


converts mains AC to low-voltage
regulated DC power for the internal
Power supply components of a computer.
Modern personal computers
universally use switched-mode
power supplies. Some power
supplies have a manual switch for
selecting input voltage, while
others automatically adapt to the
mains voltage.
Expansion card
A video card (also called
a display card, graphics
card, display adapter or graphics
adapter) is an expansion
card which generates a feed of
output images to a display (such
as a computer monitor).
Frequently, these are advertised
as discrete or dedicated graphics
Video card cards, emphasizing the distinction
between these and integrated
graphics. At the core of both is
the graphics processing
unit (GPU), which is the main part
that does the actual computations,
but should not be confused as the
video card as a whole, although
"GPU" is often used to refer to
video cards.
A TV tuner card is a kind
of television tuner that
allows television signals to be
received by a computer. Most TV
tuners also function as video
Tv tuner
capture cards, allowing them to
record television programs onto
a hard disk much like the digital
video recorder (DVR) does.

A sound card (also known as


an audio card) is an
internal expansion card that
provides input and output of audio
Sound card
signals to and from
a computer under control
of computer programs. The
term sound card is also applied to
external audio interfaces used
for professional audio applications.
Parts of Motherboard

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