Computer Components
By Luke Paddon
The Motherboard
An average motherboard cost about £149.00.
A motherbard is the circuit board that the components plug into. You can’t do anything without it it is what makes computers do what it does.
RAM
Stands for Random Access Memory. RAM provides space for the computer to read and write data. Four gigabytes of memory would be good enough and you always pay to improve it and it only cost about £50 to improve a 4GB to 8GB.
CPU
Hard Drive
SSD
Optical Drive
Sound/Graphics Card
Sound Card is an internal computer expansion card that facilitates the input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under control of computer programs. The term sound card is also applied to external audio interfaces that use software to generate sound, as opposed to using hardware inside the PC.
Graphics Card is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display.