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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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(System Board) Main circuit board of the system.
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Chip
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A small piece of semi conducting material, usually silicon, on which integrated circuits are sketched.
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CPU
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(Central Processing Unit) 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 in the computer.
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ALU
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(Arithmetic Logic Unit) Another component of the processor, preforms Arithmetic comparison, and other operations.
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System Clock
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Controls the timing of all computer operations.
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Clock Speed
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Measured by the number of ticks per second.
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