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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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sometimes called a system board, its the 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 intrigated circuits are etched
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CPU
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interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operates a computer
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Mulit-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 the processor, or that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer
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ALU
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another component of the processor, performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations
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System Clock
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small quartz cystal circuit in processor
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Clock Speed
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the pace or the system clock is measured by the number of ticks per section
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