WHATS INSIDE YOUR COMPUTER?
Ever wondered what makes up one of the worlds biggest things
Network Adapter
Expansion card or other device used to connect a computer to a network. The name applies to any kind of card connecting to any network.
CPU
The modern day CPU has hundreds of little round contacts around the bottom surface, as seen in the top image. These contact with pins on the motherboard, inside a socket specially designed for the CPU. Each motherboard has a specific socket type, and only CPU's of that socket type are compatible with that board.
In the older CPU's, the contacts used to be on the motherboard and the pins were on the CPU. Fortunately this has now changed, as many people discovered the hard way that putting your CPU in the wrong way and bending the pins was a good way to throw away a couple of hundred dollars.
Optical disk drives (CD or DVD)
Are hardware devices that read data discs (CD-ROM or DVD)
Mother board
Device that controls all software and hardware of the computer serve as the basis for installation of all components of a computer, and also known to be the piece with the larger size inside a computer.
Video Card
determines the graphics computer. Controls the size of the images and number of colors.