Computer Hardware

So what are the main components of a computer system?

• Motherboard - A motherboard is the central or primary circuit board making up a computer system or other complex electronic system
• Storage - The terms storage or memory refer to those parts of a computer that retain data for some period of time, possibly even after the computer is turned off
• Input/output devices - or I/O, refers to the interfaces that different functional units of a system use to communicate among each other, or to the signals sent through those interfaces

Computer Hardware Definition

Hardware is a comprehensive term for all of the physical parts of a computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the software that provides instructions for the hardware to acoomplish tasks. The boundary between hardware and software is slightly blurry - firmware is software that is "built-in" to the hardware, but such firmware is usually the province of computer programmers and computer engineers in any case and not an issue that computer users need to concern themselves with.

Computer components:

• Case
• CD-ROM Drive (Compact Disk Read Only Memory)
• CPU (Central Processing Unit)
• Floppy Disk Drive (FDD)
• Fan
• Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
• Mainboard or Motherboard
• Network Card
• Power Supply
• RAM (Random Access Memory)
• Sound Card
• VGA (Video Graphic Adapter)