The Components of the system unit

1. The system unit

1.1. The motherboard

2. Expansion slots and adapter cards

2.1. flash memory cards

2.2. USB flash drives

2.3. PC cards

2.4. Expresscard modules

3. Processor

3.1. the control unit

3.2. the arithmetic logic unit

3.3. machine cyber

3.4. registers

3.5. the system clock

3.6. dual-core and multi-core processors

3.7. comparison of personal

3.7.1. computer processors

3.8. buying a personal computer

3.9. heat sinks, heat pipes,and liquid

3.9.1. cooling

3.10. parallel processing

4. Data representation memory

4.1. bytes and addressable memory

4.2. memory sizes

4.3. types of memory

4.4. RAM

4.5. cache

4.6. ROM

4.7. New Flash memory

4.8. CMOS

4.9. memory acces times

5. Ports and connectors

5.1. serial ports

5.2. parallel ports

5.3. USB ports

5.4. firewire ports

5.5. spacial-purpose ports

6. Buses

6.1. expansion bus

7. Bays

8. Power supply

9. Mobile computer and devices

10. Putting it all together

10.1. New node

11. Keep clean your computer clean

12. Companies on the cutting edge

12.1. AMD

12.2. Intel