An electronic path over which data travels

Chips located inside the system unit used to store data and instructions while it is working with it

The amount of data that a cpu can manipulate at one time

Nonvolatile chips on the motherboard that permanently store data or programs

A connector on the exterior of the system unit case that is used to connect an external hardware device

High speed memory built into the cpu

A measurement of the number of instructions that a cpu can process per second

A versatile bus architecture widely used for connecting peripherals

A very small peice of silicon or other semi conducting material that contains integrated circuits and transistors

A thin board containing computer chips and other electronic components

The chip located on the motherboard of a computer that performs the processing for a computer

A bus on the motherboard used to connect peripheral devices

The smallest unit of data that a binary computer can recognize

A circuit board used to give desktop computers additional capabilities

Eight bits grouped together to make a

Nonvolatile memory chips that can be used for storage by the computer or the user

A location on the motherboard into which an expansion card is inserted to connect it to the motherboard

A cpu that contains the processing components or cores of multiple independent processors in a single cpu

The sequence of instructions the computer following during the process

A named collection of bytes that represent virtually any type of data

The main circuit board inside the system unit

Merely used to store data and instructions while the computer is running

A group of very fast memory circuits located on or close to the cpu to speed up processing

The main case of a computer

The amount of data that can be transferred via the bus in a give period

A high speed bus standard used to connect devices like digital video cameras to a computer