Across
- 2. The brain that carries out your computers instructions.
- 4. Transfers data very fast and can connect many different types of peripherals, including digital cameras and digital video cameras.
- 8. Activates when you turn on the computer and performs system checks before starting your main OS.
- 9. Older printers and scanners usually connect to it.
- 12. A form of computer memory that is volatile.
- 13. Let peripherals communicate quickly with the processor.
Down
- 1. Transfer data very fast and many peripherals require its connections.
- 3. Most newer mice and keyboards require it.
- 5. A large printed circuit board that houses most of your computers components and directs data traffic to and from the appropriate devices.
- 6. You can by this if you want better sound quality and they usually attach to one of the motherboard's PCI slots.
- 7. Houses your graphics card, which supplies the image to the monitor.
- 10. Is much slower than new USB and firewire ports and is also known as a COM (communications) port.
- 11. Funnels power through the multicoloured cables to each device.