vrn010
09-14-2011, 07:17 AM
Answer
The inside of a desktop computer is not as complicated as you may think. Below is an example of what the inside of a computer looks like and each of the parts of the computer with pointers to each of the major components that make a computer.
Information about each of the items pointed out in the above picture are found in the below links.
CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, Blu-ray
Power cable (Molex)
Floppy drive
IDE cable (Data cable), new computers use SATA
Hard disk drive
Motherboard
Power supply
Processor (CPU)
Fan (Heatsink)
Memory (RAM)
Expansion card (ISA, PCI, AGP, and PCI-X )
The expansion cards are often devices such as your video card, sound card, network card, etc. Click on any of the below links for additional information about each of these devices. It is also common for many computers today to have these components built into the motherboard.
The inside of a desktop computer is not as complicated as you may think. Below is an example of what the inside of a computer looks like and each of the parts of the computer with pointers to each of the major components that make a computer.
Information about each of the items pointed out in the above picture are found in the below links.
CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, Blu-ray
Power cable (Molex)
Floppy drive
IDE cable (Data cable), new computers use SATA
Hard disk drive
Motherboard
Power supply
Processor (CPU)
Fan (Heatsink)
Memory (RAM)
Expansion card (ISA, PCI, AGP, and PCI-X )
The expansion cards are often devices such as your video card, sound card, network card, etc. Click on any of the below links for additional information about each of these devices. It is also common for many computers today to have these components built into the motherboard.