Parts of a Desktop Computer

Cooling System Graphics Card

Cooling systems prevent the computer from overheating. There are The graphics card (also known as the GPU) is essential for running two types of cooling systems: Liquid cooling and air cooling. Air anything that is performance demanding. GPUs are not required to cooling is affordable, but it is loud and it doesn’t transfer heat build a computer but are highly recommended if you are going to very well. Liquid cooling is expensive, but it is quiet and transfers run any major graphically demanding programs. heat better.

Computer Case Motherboard

The computer case is essentially a plastic box that holds all of the The motherboard is a printed circuit board that all of the computer components inside. Computer cases are sometimes components of the computer plug into in order to interact with referred to as towers. They come in various sizes depending on the each other. It can allocate power to specific components size of your motherboard that you are using.. depending on the task. It is called a motherboard because it is the main circuit board in the computer.

Power Supply RAM

As the name suggests, power supplies provide the computer with RAM stands for “Random Access Memory.” The main function of power to function, they generally have a section where you can RAM is to take data from the hard drive or solid-state drive and connect the power supply to an outlet using a power cord. Power hold it temporarily so the data can be accessed much faster. The supplies contain various cables that plug into the motherboard more RAM your computer has, the faster you can access files. giving it power.

CPU Hard Drive/SSD

CPU stands for “Central Processing Unit.” The CPU is generally Hard drives and SSDs are both components used to store vast known as the brain of the computer as every action performed by amounts of data. Hard drives are cheaper, have more storage, and the computer goes through the CPU in one way or another. The are slower. SSD stands for “Solid-State Drive”. They are more main job of the CPU is to quickly perform calculations. expensive and have less storage, but are significantly faster.