2.3 Hardware

2. Electric Fan that is placed inside the chassis to allow for proper ventilation to prevent components from overheating
5. A common measurement of memory or storage capacity.1 GB is equal to 1,000 megabytes or 1,000,000,000 bytes.
7. The piece of hardware that provides all other hardware with a source of power. The PSU is powered by AC current from an electrical outlet.
8. A type of hardware that can randomly access information stored on the computer.
10. Also referred to as water cooling. This is a method of cooling where cool water runs to the CPU and once it gets hot, the water runs back to the radiator to be cooled back down.
12. A non-volatile data storage device with magnetic disks.

1. The physical or logical unit which can independently process all computational functions.
3. Drive A portable storage device.
4. The register stores information acquired from the arithmetic logic unit.
6. A short-distance wireless technology used to interconnect a multitude of different devices.
9. A newer audio/video connector used in newer computers.
11. A computer chip that performs computing tasks in order to render images to the display.