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=__HARDWARE COMPONENTS__= On my page of this wiki I will explain a little about the most important hardware components of a modern computer.

__THE MOTHERBOARD:__

 * Meeting place for all parts of the computer
 * Large electronic circuit board designed to house the CPU
 * Provides a central point for other electronic components to connect in order to communicate with each other.



SABERTOOTH P67 B3 Revision Motherboard

__THE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU):__

 * Place where most calculations take place.
 * Housed in a single chip called a microprocessor.

Two typical components of a CPU are the following:

 * The Arithmetic Logic Unit // (ALU) //, which performs arithmetic and logical operations.
 * The Control Unit// (CU) //, which extracts instructions from memory and decodes and executes them, calling on the ALU when necessary.

AMD Phenom-II X6-1090T Black Edition Processor

__THE GRAPHICS/VIDEO CARD:__

 * Used primarily for 3D applications.
 * Takes binary data from CPU and turns it into an image that we can see (rendering)
 * Performs floating point calculations which are crucial for 3D rendering.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 280 Hydro Copper 16 graphics card

__THE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY(RAM):__
RAM Chips
 * Considered Random Access because you can access any memory cell directly if you know the row and column that intersect that cell.
 * Two types of RAM, SRAM(Static RAM) and DRAM(Dynamic RAM)
 * DRAM needs to be refreshed thousands of times and SRAM does not so SRAM is faster but DRAM is most common.
 * SRAM is expensive.