Basic computing - unit 3

Lesson 5 Parts of computers (2) Look at the picture and label the components expansion cards memory chip power supply hard disk drive floppy drive motherboard speaker processor a b c d e f g h memory chip expansion cards power supply hard disk drive floppy drive motherboard speaker processor hoàng Tuấn 10 Nhật Kha 8 1) CPU 2) Memory Slot 3) PCI Slot 4) AGP Slot 5) Power Supply Plugin 6) CMOS Battery 7) ISA Slot 8) IDE controller (hard drive, CD-ROM) 9) CPU fan plug-in 10) PS/2 Port (keyboard/mouse) 11) USB 12) Parallel Port (Printer) Reading The motherboard SIMM ROM CPU Cache memory Expansion slots SIMMs These are memory chips. The more you have, the more work you can do at a time. Empty memory slots mean you can add more memory. Single In-line Memory Module ­ chip (n) = integrated chip = IC                      /ˈɪntɪɡreɪtɪd/ - empty (adj) /ˈempti/ - slot (n)  - add (v)   Cache memory It’s part of the memory store. It has extremely fast access. It’s faster than normal RAM. It can speed up the computer. ­ extremely (adv) /ɪkˈstriːmli/ - access (n), (v) /ˈækses/ - speed up (v) - RAM (Random Access Memory)  Expansion slots These let you add features such as sound or a modem to a computer. ­ add (v)  ­ feature (n) /ˈfiːtʃər/  [...]... new motherboard Remove the old motherboard Put it back together Add the memory Don’t touch the contacts A memory cache, sometimes called a cache store or RAM cache, is a portion of memory made of high-speed static RAM (SRAM) instead of the slower and cheaper dynamic RAM (DRAM) used for main memory Memory caching is effective because most programs access the same data or instructions over and over By . memory. Single In-line Memory Module ­ chip (n) = integrated chip = IC                      /ˈɪntɪɡreɪtɪd/ - empty (adj) /ˈempti/ - slot (n)  - add (v)  . Memory Slot 3) PCI Slot 4) AGP Slot 5) Power Supply Plugin 6) CMOS Battery 7) ISA Slot 8) IDE controller (hard drive, CD-ROM) 9) CPU fan plug-in 10) PS/2