SYLLABUS
- hardware components of a computer system 11 ATAR, 12 GEN
VOCABULARY
- component = a part of a computer
DETAILS
- visit wikipedia to learn more about the general components of a computer system. Also use the table at the bottom of the same page to go to other pages for more details
FOR YOU TO DO
- Make a list of top of the range and average for each of the following
- CPUs
- RAM
- Hard drives
- Solid state drives
- Graphics cards
- Monitors
- Graphic Tablet
2. You are expected to be very familiar with all components above. You should know the following details and a whole lot more.
- SDRAM and RDRAM are types of RAM
- LED and LCD are types of monitors
- i7, intel, AMD, Athlon are popular CPUs
- Radeon, GeForce are popular video/graphics cards
- Western Digital, Seagate are popular hard disk drives
- Wacom are popular graphic tablets
3. You are expected to know that cache is stored in several locations; on the CPU L1 cache, next to the CPU L2 cache. Also that cache is the fastest memory so it is important to have a larger amount, but it is costly.
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