1. Kuliah 2 Pengantar Teknologi Informasi Oleh Coky Fauzi Alfi cokyfauzialfi.wordpress.com Hardware (1)
2. Topics Hardware is... PC versus MAC Personal Computing Hardware Timeline The Case (Chassis) Power Supply Motherboard
3. Hardware is the physical part of a computer — anything you can touch andanything you can see. The computer chassis, themonitor, the keyboard, themouse — that physical stuff is hardware.
16. Components can get very hot, and good airflow is needed to get that heat away from thecomponents. There are three main airflow models : Negative Pressure―sucking all the hot air out of the case. Positive Pressure―pushing hot air out of the case Equalised Airflow―equal air intake and exhaust.
31. Chipsets Components which are connected to themotherboard are controlled and connected by the chipset. This usually comprises of a northbridge chip and a southbridge chip.
34. Northbridge The northbridge chip allows the CPU, RAM and Graphics Card(s) (via PCIExpress lanes or, before that, AGP lanes) tocommunicate between each other. The northbridge no longer exists as a chip on the motherboard on newer systems; instead the PCIExpress and RAM controllers have been incorporated into the processor itself.
35. Southbridge The southbridge is responsible for thecommunication between the other components, external devices, audio and the network.