Across
- 1. Manufacturers generally color the keyboard port purple and the mouse port green.
- 3. house your graphics card, which supplies the images to the monitor
- 5. Card if you want better sound quality
- 7. is the brain that carries out your computer’s instructions.
- 10. 1394 transfer data as fast as 400Mbps (megabits per second). (The next generation offers speeds as fast as 3,200 Mbps.)
- 11. reaches its capacity, the processor redirects the excess data to your hard drive.
Down
- 1. port. USB and FireWire connections are quickly replacing this port
- 2. isn’t the prettiest component by any means. It funnels power through the multicolored cables (many cables have more than one connector) to each device.
- 4. slots let peripherals communicate quickly with the processor.
- 6. Some devices are able to draw power from the computer in addition to data through the port. 2.0 port, data will transfer at the USB 1.1 speed.
- 8. activates when you turn on the computer and performs system checks before starting your main OS.
- 9. Port much slower than new USB and FireWire ports. You can attach some older keyboards, mice, and modems