Across
- 2. Many peripherals, such as MP3 players, modern printers, and PDAs (personal digital assistants) require this
- 4. of peripherals, including digital cameras and digital video cameras
- 6. These are much slower than new USB and FireWire ports
- 8. Is the brain that carries out your computer’s instructions
- 9. When this reaches its capacity the processor redirects the excess data to your hard drive
- 10. This houses your graphics card, which supplies the image to the monitor
- 12. ports protrude from the back of the computer
- 14. This activates when you turn on the computer and performs system checks before starting your main OS
Down
- 1. A large pcb that directs data to and from the appropriate devices
- 3. Motherboards often have these integrated "chips"
- 5. This isn’t the prettiest component by any means
- 7. If you have an older printer or scanner, you probably connect the device to this
- 11. You can use this to connect many different
- 13. Although some newer mice and keyboards include USB cables, most require this port
