1. Power Supply

2. Motherboard

3. Expansion slots
Expansion Card Slots

4. Video Card
Think blue!
Video Card

5. Don’t I look like a phone jack?
Network Card
Don’t I look like a phone jack?
Network Card

6. Sound Card

7. RAM
RAM

8. ROM
ROM

9. Battery

10. Hard Drive

11. CD ROM Drive

12. Ribbon Cable

13. Wafer Chip

14. USB Ports

15. Ports

16. Microprocessing Chips

17. CPU

18. Hardware Jobs
Special outlet that allows devices to be plugged in, such as a keyboard, monitor or mouse.
Port
A place to add an expansion card, which allows for things such as video and sound.
Expansion slots
Storage device that typically holds the operating system and computer programs.
Hard drive

19. Hardware Jobs
Takes power into the PC and directs it to the components that need it.
Power supply
The place where all major components are plugged in.
Motherboard
Universal Serial Bus port.
USB port

20. Hardware Jobs
Silicon disc that is used to make micro processing chips.
Wafer chip
Controls power to PC.
On / Off Switch
Output device that displays text and graphics.
Monitor

21. Hardware Jobs Compact disk drive. Signals from CPU to monitor.
CD ROM Drive
Signals from CPU to monitor.
Video card
Allows the computer to power the clock, calendar and system settings while computer is turned off.
Battery
Storage device that is a removable disk that holds 1.44 mb of data.
Floppy Disk

22. Hardware Jobs Holds temporary data and instructions in use.
Memory chips
Main input device of letters, symbols and numbers.
Keyboard
Input device that uses rollers and sensors to move the screen pointer.
Mouse
Central Processing Unit.
CPU

23. Hardware Jobs Flat cable of wires.
Ribbon cable
Controls and directs PC activities and determines the order of these tasks.
Microprocessing chips