CPU
CPU is the acronym for _____________.
What is a Central Processing Unit?
The location where is the CPU is seated.
What is a socket?
PSU is the acronym for ____________.
What is a Power Supply Unit?
RAM is the acronym for __________.
What is Random Access Memory?
Storage is like this in the human brain.
What is long-term memory?
The CPU is like this in the human body.
What is a brain?
The Motherboard is like these systems in the human body.
What is the skeletal and nervous system?
The PSU is like this in the human body.
What is a heart?
RAM is like this in the human brain.
What is working or "short-term" memory?
HDD is the acronym for __________.
A CPU chip with flat contact points.
What is LGA or Land Grid Array?
The motherboard connects these together, allowing data to flow between them.
This type of design is useful and is reflected in how components connect to a PSU.
What is Modular Design?
This happens to data in RAM when a computer shuts off.
What is emptied?
This is what data in storage is called because it stick around even if the computer is turned off.
What is persistant?
A CPU can produce a lot of this when it works really hard.
What is heat?
The motherboard distributes this as needed to all of the attached components.
Other than the components, the PSU also connects to this place?
What is a wall outlet?
This is what the seat for RAM is called on a motherboard.
What is a RAM Slot?
SSD is the acronym for __________.
What is a Solid State Drive?
This is required between the CPU and a cooling device to aid with heat transfer.
What is Thermal Paste?
This metal forms the network of electrical pathways that trace around the board.
What is copper?
The amount of electricity that a PSU can provide is measured in this unit.
What is wattage (or watts)?
RAM capacity is measured in what unit?
What is a gigabyte?
Modern storage is typically measured in these units.
What is a gigabyte and terabyte?