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Case that contains the electronic components of a computer that are used to process data.
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system unit
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Main circuit board of the system unit, which has some electronic components attached to it and others built into it.
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Motherboard
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Small piece of semiconducting material, usually silicon, on which integrated circuits are etched.
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chip
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Electronic component on a computer's motherboard that interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate the computer.
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CPU
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Single chip with two or more separate processor cores.
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Multi-core processor
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Component of a processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer.
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Control unit
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Component of a processor that performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations.
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ALU
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Small quartz crystal circuit that is used by the processor to control the timing of all computer operations.
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System clock
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Pace of the system clock, measured by the number of ticks per second.
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clock speed
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