Computer system components

Computer system components. Understand the components of computer systems , You are to explain the function of computer hardware components. Use images and diagrams to aide your explanations and remember not all staff are computer literate so you need to try and keep the terminology simple. You are to cover the following: • Motherboard • BIOS • Power supply • Fan and heat sink or cooling • Hard drive configuration and controllers e.g. SATA, IDE, EIDE, master, slave • Ports e.g. USB, parallel, serial • Internal memory e.g. RAM, ROM, Cache • Specialised cards e.g. network, graphic cards • Processor. The communication between components must be identified. Peripherals should include: • Input devices e.g. camera, scanner, mouse, keyboard, • Output devices e.g. monitor, printer, plotter • Associated cabling e.g. coaxial, optical, twisted pair Backing storage should include: • Disks • Pen drives • Optical media • Flash memory cards • Portable and fixed drives