System Unit - Is the enclosure that contains the main components of a computer

Chassis/Case – Made of Aluminum or plastic, computer case

Parts of System Unit – Mother Board, Power supply, Back panel, front panel, chassis/case, Harddisk
drive, Hard disk led, powerbutton, Power led/pled, floppy disk drive, cd drive

Mother Board - The main board, a large circuit board where everything else plugs (ports) into.

Power supply - primary function of a power supply is to convert one form of electrical energy to
another.

Back Panel - The portion of the motherboard that allows you to connect external devices such as your
monitor, speakers, keyboard, and mouse.

front panel connector - is where all the elements present on the front of your case are connected.

Harddisk drive - is the main, and usually largest, data storage hardware device in a computer. keeps a
hold of its data even when powered off.

Solid-state drive - SSDs use flash-based memory, which is much faster than a traditional mechanical hard
disk.

Power button - a round or square button that powers an electronic device ON and OFF.

Power led/pled - connection on the system panel header that lights the power led indicators on your
motherboard or front of your case.

Floppy disk drive - a piece of computer hardware that reads data from, and writes data to, a small disk.

CD drive - a device that lets you access a compact disc from a computer

CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data. Read only memory

CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format. Can be Edited and read

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Ram, Rom, CMOS battery, Cpu socket, central processing unit, North bridge, South bridge, PCI EXPRESS,
PCI, FDD HEADER, 24 PIN CONNECTOR, 4 PIN CONNECTOR, FRONT PANEL CONNECTORS, BACK PANEL
CONNECTORS, Speaker connector, memory slot, SATA connector, IDE Connector, CAPACITOR, COIL, Fan

Basic Input/output system - contains the basic information about the hardware & settings of your
computer. used during the start up routine (boot process) to check out the system and prepare to run
the hardware.

RAM (Random Access memory) - memory is used inside the computer to hold programs & data while it
is running. volatile type of memory.

ROM (Read only MEMORY) - stores the content even if the system is not in use to store the information
permanently. Non-volatile type of memory
CMOS battery (Complimentary metal oxide semi Conductor) - used to store basic Information about the
pc’s configuration.

CPU socket/Processor Socket – A connection that allows the computer processor to be connected to
motherboard.

CPU (Central Processing unit) - Also known as microprocessor or processor. Called the Computer’s Brain
responsible for fetching, decoding and executing program instructions as well as performing
mathematical and logical calculations

NorthBridge - Oversees controlling transfers between the processor and the ram. Called Memory
Controller

SouthBridge – an IC on the motherboard responsible for the hard drive controller, I/O controller and
integrated hardware. Called Input/Output Controller

PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) -

PCI express - standard type of connection for internal devices in a computer. It replaced AGP
(accelerated graphics port)