Inside a PC

This illustrated book takes you on a journey through the components that go to make up a Windows PC. The book starts with basic parts of a computer system, these are the system tower, monitor, mouse and keyboard. The book is in full illustrative color and describes the key PC components. The motherboard and its main microchips are described. From the CPU to the BIOS and system memory. Includes the motherboards ports USB, FireWire,PS2, Serial and Parallel. The graphics standards VGA, HDMI and AGP graphics card are shown with illustrative graphics The book describes the PCI expansion card system. Internal cooling of the PC is shown in full color, along with the Power supply unit. The book finishes with Hard drives, SATA drives and Optical drives. A colorful resource for beginners to computer science.