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11 Cards in this Set
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System Unit
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a case that contains electronic components and most storage devices are port of the system unit
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Motherboard
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also called a systemboard, is the maincircuit board of the system unit
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chip
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small piece of semicunducting material usually silicon on which integrated circircuits are etched
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CPU
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Central processing unit inteprets and carries out the basic instructions thet operates a computer
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multi-core processor
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is a chip with two or more seperate processor cores
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dual-core processor
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is a chip that contains two seperate processor cores
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control unit
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is the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer
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arithmetic logic unit
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another component of the processor that preforms arithmetic, comparison, and other operations
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clock speed
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is measured by the number of ticks per second
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gigahertz
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equals one billion ticks of the system clock 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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