The official marketing text of HP Compaq dc5800 Base Model Small Form Factor PC E8400 SFF Intel® Core™2 Duo 2 GB DDR2-SDRAM 320 GB Windows Vista Business as supplied by the manufacturer An optional DVD/CD player/recorder for reading/writing DVDs/CDs. Hard disk, this is the permanent memory of your computer where your data is stored. Those integrated video boards are generally not very well suited for playing games, but good enough for watching movies. Micro ATX motherboards often have an integrated video board. Video board, this is the part of your computer that is responsible for the graphics processing. Often it has some integrated components like a sound card, enabling your computer to play sound, or a network card, to connect your computer to the network. Motherboard, this is the component that connects all the different parts of your computer. Memory (RAM), this is very fast memory in which temporary data is stored before being processed by the processor.
A processor (CPU), this is the heart of your computer, where the data processing is done. They always have the following components: Personal Computers, PCs for short, are computers for personal usage.
