Across
- 3. lets peripherals communicate with the professor quickly.
- 5. motherboards often have integrated sound chips, if it does not, you can buy one of these.
- 7. funnels power through multicoloured wires
- 9. older printers/scanners need to be connected to these.
- 10. stores temporary information, when it reaches its full capacity, it moves the information to your hard drive.
- 11. the brain that holds your computer's instructions.
- 12. many peripherals such as printers, and MP3 players require these to make connections.
Down
- 1. houses your graphics card, which allows the image to get to the monitor.
- 2. transfers data up to 400mbps, used to connect many different types of peripherals, including cameras.
- 4. houses computer's components and directs data to the appropriate devices.
- 6. the motherboard installs
- 8. much slower than usb and firewire ports. also known as com (communication) ports.
- 9. newer mice and keyboard require usb's, but most require these ports.