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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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Main circuit board of the system unit
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Chip
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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 processor cores
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Control Unit
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Component of processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer
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ALU
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(Arithmetic Logic Unit) Performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations
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System Clock
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Small quartz crystal circuit that controls the timing of all computer operations
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Clock Speed
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Part of system clock, measured by its ticks per second
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