Definition

Hard Drive: is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with mangnetic surfaces.

CPU: (Central Processing Unit): a description of a class of logic machines that can execute computer programs.

Mother Board: A motherboard is the central or primary printed circuit board, making up a complex electronic system, such as a modern computer.

Power Supply: Power Supply is a referance to a source of electronical power. A device or system that supplies electronical or other types of energy to an outpout load or group of loads is called a power supply unit or PSU.

PCI: The peripheral component interconnect or pci standard( commonly PCI), specifies a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard.

PCI Express: officaily abbreviated as PCI-e or PCIe, is a computer expansion card interface format introduced by Intel in 2004.

USB: Is a serial bus standard to interface devices to a host computer.

Firewire: The IEEE 1394 interface

IEEE 1394: interface is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer, frequently used ina  personal computeR (and digital and digital video).

LCD: A liquid crystal display (LCD) is an electro-optical amplitude modulator realized as a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector.

Plasma: a common application of plasma(physics), a flat-panel electronic visual display technology.

HDMI: is a compact audio/video connector interface for transmitting uncompressed digital streams.

RAM: is a type of computer data storage, today it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow the stored data to be accessed in any pie order, ie at random.

flash memory: is a non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.

AGP- The accelerated Graphics Port( also called advanced graphics port, often shortened to AGP) is a high speed point to point channel for attaching a graphics card to a computer’s motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

DVD: is a popular optical disc storage media format.  It’s main uses are video and data storage.

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