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Computers 2012
Your Interactive Guide
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Objectives Overview
Identify characteristics of
various personal computer Define a bit and describe Explain how program
processors on the market how a series of bits instructions transfer in and
today, and describe the represents data out of memory
ways processors are cooled
Power supply
Sound card
Video card
Processor
Memory
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Figure 4-2
The System Unit
• The leading
manufacturers of
personal computer
processor chips are Intel
and AMD
• A processor chip
generates heat that
could cause the chip to
burn up
• Require additional
cooling
– Heat sinks
– Liquid cooling
technology
• ASCII (American
Standard Code for
Information
Interchange) is the most
widely used coding
scheme to represent
data
• Firmware
• An expansion slot is a
socket on the motherboard
that can hold an adapter
card
• An adapter card enhances
functions of a component of
the system unit and/or
provides connections to
peripherals
– Sound card and video card
MIDI port
• A port replicator is an
external device that
provides connections to
peripherals through ports
built into the device
• A docking station is an
external device that
attaches to a mobile
computer or device
Accelerated
PCI bus PCI Express bus
Graphics Port
• A bay is an opening
inside the system unit in
which you can install
additional equipment
– A drive bay typically
holds disk drives
Power Enterprise
Intel Xeon or Intel Core i7 or
Intel Itanium or Intel Core i7 Extreme
AMD Opteron or AMD Phenom II or
Minimum RAM: 8 GB AMD Athlon II
Minimum RAM: 4 GB
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Sequence of operations
How memory stores
Components of the that occur when a
data, instructions, and
system unit computer executes an
information
instruction
Comparison of various
How to clean the
personal computer
exterior and interior of
processors on the
a system unit
market today
Discovering
Computers 2012
Your Interactive Guide
to the Digital World
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