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

1. 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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