Computer in everyday life Chapter Four The Components of System Unit

1. The system Unit

1.1. The Motherboard

2. Technology Trailblazers

2.1. mystery shop potential customers

3. Companies on the cutting edge

3.1. AMD

3.2. Intel

4. High-tech talk

4.1. Random Access Memory (RAM) : The genius of memory

5. Chapter summary

6. Keeping your computer clean

7. Putting it all together

8. Mobile Computers and Devices

9. Processor

9.1. The Control Unit

9.2. The Arithmetric Logic Unit

9.3. Machine Cycle

9.4. Registers

9.5. The System Clock

9.6. Comparison of Personal Computer Processor

9.7. Buying a Personal Computer

9.8. Heat Sink,Heat Pipes, and Liquid cooling

9.9. Parallel Processing

10. Data Representation Memory

10.1. Bytes and Addressable Memory

10.2. Memory sizes

10.3. Types of memory

10.4. RAM

10.5. Cache

10.6. ROM

10.7. Flash Memory

10.8. CMOS

10.9. Memory Access Times

11. Expansion Slots and Adapter cards

11.1. PC cards,Flash memory cards, and USB Flash drives

12. Ports and Connectors

12.1. Serial Ports

12.2. Parellel Ports

12.3. USB Ports

12.4. Firewire Ports

12.5. Special-Purpose Ports

13. Buses

13.1. Expansion bus

14. Bays

15. Power Supply