PC Assembling Workshop
PC Assembling Workshop
Introduction to PC
assembling
By
Rajashree V Biradar
OBJECTIVES OF THE SESSION
Older version
Case fans
• Some of the computer cases include case fans ,one for intake and one for
exhaust and some will not.
• The Antec KS-282 computer case does not come with case fans .
CPU (Processor)
CPU without Pins LGA 775
CPU with Pins until Pentium-D
Pentium 4 –Single core
Single Pentium 4 logically can function as if there are physically two processors in
the pc. The processor core (with its long pipelines) is simply so powerful that it
can, in many cases, act as two processors.
Dual core Processor
•The CPU,video card, sound card, IDE hard drive, keyboard ,mouse etc. all plug into the
motherboard's various slots and connectors.
•AT motherboards are older, and not commonly used now a days.
• Other major differences include power supply connector, and keyboard connector.
• AT has 5-pin large keyboard connector, where as ATX has 6-pin mini connector.
•Similarly, AT has single row two connectors +/-5V, and +/-12V, whereas ATX
motherboard has double row single connector providing +/-5V, +/-x 9.6" deep,
1. Mouse & keyboard
2. USB
3. Parallel port
4. CPU Chip
5. RAM slots
6. Floppy controller
7. IDE controller
8. PCI slot
9. ISA slot
10. CMOS Battery
11. AGP slot
12. CPU slot
13. Power supply plug in
1. Mouse & keyboard: Keyboard Connectors are two types basically.
The oldest, is a special DIN, and most PCs until recently retained this
style connector. The latest is the smaller mini DIN PS/2-style
keyboard connector.
9. ISA slot: (Industry Standard Architecture) The ISA slot is an old type of
connector for internal peripherals such as modems and network cards. ISA
is a system bus running a lot slower than the PCI
10. CMOS Battery: To provide CMOS with the power when the computer is
turned off , all motherboards comes with a battery.
12. CPU slot: To install the CPU, just slide it straight down into the slot. Special
notches in the slot make it impossible to install them incorrectly. Be sure to
plug in the CPU fan's power.
Original PC design
In the original PC design (the IBM XT), the CPU, RAM and I/O devices (which
we will come to later) were connected on one and the same bus, and everything
ran synchronously (at a common speed).
The CPU decided which clock frequency the other devices had to work at.
Clock doubling
An external clock frequency is less than an internal clock frequency and
hence 486 was given a built-in L1 cache, to reduce the imbalance between
the slow RAM and the fast processor
Overclocking
In the case of the Pentium II and III, the system bus was increased
to 100 and 133 MHz, with the internal clock frequency set to a
multiple of these.
BIOS
BIOS
• The BIOS and drivers are software written
for specific hardware which smooth out the
interfaces between the hardware and the
operating system.
• The ROM BIOS performs a basic test of
central hardware to verify basic
functionality.
HARD DRIVE
Hard drive
• The hard drive interface primarily in use
today is the newer serial (SATA) interface.
• The older IDE parallel ATA (PATA)
interface is not well supported on many
motherboards today.
• A motherboard may come with support for
both interfaces.
IBM 120GXP 80GB HDD
SMPS
RAM
• RAM (Random Access Memory) is the main system memory of the
computer.
• A total of 1024MB of RAM (1GB of RAM) is sufficient in many cases to
ensure the overall system performance .
• But a is general purpose computer of today should have 2048MB of RAM
(2GB of RAM).
Video Card
• The four key components of overall system performance are the motherboard,
processor, RAM and the video card.
• Computers designed with graphics capabilities in mind need a high end video
card much more than a high end processor
• The video card shown below is the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216, a PCI Express
2.0 x16 video card.
Sound Card