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9 Cards in this Set
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System Unit
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A case containing the electronic components of a cmputer.
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Motherboard
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The main circuit board of the system unit. "System Board"
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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 functions 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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The component of he processor that directs and cordinates most of the operating of the computer.
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ALU
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Arithmetic Logic Unit. Performs arithmetic comparisons and other logical functions.
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System Clock
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Small Timekeeping quartz-crystal circuit.
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Clock Speed
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The pace of teh system clock measured in ticks/second.
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