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9 Cards in this Set
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System Unit
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Case that conatins electronic components of the computer used to process data.
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Motherboard
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System Board. 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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Control Processing Unit. Interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer.
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Multi-Core Processor
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Chip with two or more separate processor cores.
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Control Unit
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Component of the 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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Clock Speed
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Measured by the number of ticks per second.
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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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