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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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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 integrated circuits are etched
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CPU (Central Processing Unit)
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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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the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations of the computer
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ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit)
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component of the processor that performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations
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System Clock
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a small quartz crystal circuit that controls the timing of all the computers operations
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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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