Inside of a computer workstation

Zack SmithBlock 4

January 30th, 2009

Computer Supply

A computer supply is a source of electrical power. A device or system that supplies electrical or other types of energy to an output load or group of loads is called a power supply unit. It is most commonly applied to electrical energy supplies, less often to mechanical ones, and rarely to others.

A motherboard is the central printed circuit board in a electric system like a modem, and personal computers. The motherboard is also named as a mainboard or system board.

A hard drive stores digitally encoded data on rapidaly rotating

A fan cools the system down. It prevents over heating

Cell processor

the part of a computer that interprets instructions, in case of a multi-core processor it refers to multiple

is a form of computer data storage. Today it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow the stored data to be accessed in any order

Graphics card/Video card

also known as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter, or graphics card, is a hardware component whose function is to generate and output images to a display

Cd Drive

is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback