computer hardware
2nd year ICT
All about computers
Drives
A solid state drive stores a PC's operating system and software there is another version of this called a hard drive which is basically a largere cheaper type of this. The reason why solid state drives are more exspensive is because there smaller and usually store more information than a hard drive they are almost more practical because of there sizes
CPU ( central processsing unit)
The CPU is also known as the processor. The CPU contains the microprocessor, this the heart of what a PC's operations, this seriously affects the performance of a computer, both the hardware and the software rely on the processor. Intel and AMD are two large manufactures of processors. The two most common sizes of processors are 64 bit and 32 bit.
The Motherboard
As you can probably tell from the name the motherboard is definetely a key part of a PC. Every component in a PC is in someway linked to this. Motherboards come in different shapes and sizes, there is also a huge range in quality of motherboards