The system unit is a case that contains electronic components of the computer used to process data
The inside of the system unit on a desktop personal computer includes:
- Drive bay(s)
- Power supply
- Sound card
- Video card
- Processor
- Memory
The motherboard is the main circuit board of the system unit
- A computer chip contains integrated circuits
The processor, also called the central processing unit (CPU), interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer
- Contain a control unit and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
- Multi-core processor
- Dual-core processor
- Quad-core processor
The control unit is the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer
The arithmetic logic unit (ALU) performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations
For every instruction, a processor repeats a set of four basic operations, which comprise a machine cycle
Most current personal computers support pipelining
- Processor begins fetching a second instruction before it completes the machine cycle for the first instruction
The inside of the system unit on a desktop personal computer includes:
- Drive bay(s)
- Power supply
- Sound card
- Video card
- Processor
- Memory
The motherboard is the main circuit board of the system unit
- A computer chip contains integrated circuits
The processor, also called the central processing unit (CPU), interprets and carries out the basic instructions that operate a computer
- Contain a control unit and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
- Multi-core processor
- Dual-core processor
- Quad-core processor
The control unit is the component of the processor that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computer
The arithmetic logic unit (ALU) performs arithmetic, comparison, and other operations
For every instruction, a processor repeats a set of four basic operations, which comprise a machine cycle
Most current personal computers support pipelining
- Processor begins fetching a second instruction before it completes the machine cycle for the first instruction