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9 Cards in this Set
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System Unit
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A case that contains electronic components of the computer used to process data.
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Motherboard
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Is the main circuit board of the system unit containing electronic components such as processor and memory card
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Chip
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A small piece of semiconducting material, usually silicon, on which integrated circuits are etched.
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CPU
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(Central Processing Unit)
Interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer. |
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Multi-Core Processor
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A chip with two or more separate processing cores.
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Control Unit
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Component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer.
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ALU
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(Arithmetic Logic Unit)
Another component of the processor, performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations. |
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System Clock
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Quartz crystal circuit that controls the timing of the computer operations by generating regular electronic pulses or ticks that set the operating pace.
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Clock Speed
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Pace of the system clock, measured by the number of ticks per second.
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