RAM temporarily stores files that are in active use to allow for faster processing, similar to keeping work files on a desk versus a shelf. Better RAM results in improved computer performance. All sounds are produced by the sound card, which converts files to audio and outputs them through speakers or headphones. The quality of the sound card determines audio quality. Monitors visually output computer contents and come in different types like touchscreens and projectors, each with their own output methods. The motherboard is the central component that connects all other hardware components, and more advanced motherboards can improve aspects like processing speed and memory capacity.

1. NON-Technical + Technical Information
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2. • NON-Technical Information: Memory
• This software is very important, reason why is; what you are working on
right now is what the RAM has opened up for you. It’s similar to when
you have work on your desk and work on your shelf; the desk is your
RAM and the shelf is your hard-drive. The work on your desk is opened
by the RAM so you can work on it and the shelf is bigger and stores more
work. ( You can’t work straight of your shelf, can you? ) Memory on the
computer acts very similar to real life. When you store something on the
hard-drive, in-real life you are effectively storing work in a depot or
storage area. When you take something out of storage to use it or work
on it on your desk your effectively putting work onto the RAM. If you
have stronger RAM your computer will work more smoothly, with out
jumpiness and less freezing time. RAM is a very big deal, better RAM =
better performance; for example java will work faster because it can
store memory on the RAM so it can work fast and not have to transfer all
the data from the hard-drive to the RAM.

3. • NON-Technical Information: Sound
• All the sounds come from this one piece of equipment called the ‘sound
card’ this converts files from the computer into sound from the speaker’s
or/and the headphones. The better the sound card the better the sound,
meaning the definition of the instruments and the beat. Nothing is fuzzy
in the sounding of the music. Sound cards basically download and delete
the music as it goes. It is use for everything, clicking on the computer,
translate work and even be programmed into games. Anything on a
video game and televisions originated from the computer because it can
be programmed by anything. Analogue is a type of sound, as is Digital;
they are both frequency waves that allow data to be past though them.
Digital all in all is a better frequency for videos and sound, but analogue
is very good at transmitting phone calls. Phone’s, mobile phones all of
these have a sound card inside them. Pretty much all the recent phones
are using java scripts to control the phones

4. • NON-Technical Information: Visual
• Monitors are a form of ‘visual’ technology, which it shows what you are
working on at the time. They are very delicate and if you open up the
you may be in danger and ‘may’ die. Projectors are ‘visual’ because they
show the display on a wall of screen so the worker can do the work on a
larger scale. There are so many types of visual outputs like projectors
and touch screen monitors. All of the have a specific way of showing
there visual outputs, like the projectors have a specific lens that shoots
out the light so it’s visible on a wall, and the touchscreen allows you to
change the output. There are different visual showing, for example 3-D
outputs, which allow the screen to seem as some objects, are flying out
at you for a better cinema experience. There are so many types of visual
outputs like projectors and touch screen monitors. All of the have a
specific way of showing there visual outputs, like the projectors have a
specific lens that shoots out the light so it’s visible on a wall, and the
touch screen allows you to change the output.

5. • NON-Technical Information: Motherboard
• It allows EVERYTHING to work, all wires link to this board. All hardware
components are needed to be link to this, in fact if something is not
linked to the motherboard or wirelessly recognised by the motherboard
it will not even be accounted for and not going to be used.
Motherboards are the HUB of the whole computer; they allow you to do
everything that you see on the screen and more. With a motherboard
that can be programmed the possibilities are pretty much endless. All
cables are linked to the motherboard, if something is not linked to the
motherboard it does not exist. Motherboards can be hand made, but will
take a very long time, you can buy modified motherboards to suit your
needs; there not all the same ( some have more) ---RAM slots for faster
gaming and loading speed, stronger processor which gives the overall
performance a boost, and it is less likely to freeze and stall because it can
handle more operations than a usual lower band of processor.

6. • Technical Information: Memory
• RAM and ROM are different types of memory which both do similar
transfers. RAM comes in all different types of forms; there are better
versions than others there are RAM’s for certain forms of use. DRAM
(Dynamic RAM) the dynamic RAM’s use a capacitor to function their
RAM it reads in 0’s and 1’s. It only holds work if it have a constant pulse
of electricity it is called a ‘fresh circuit’. So if there is a strong and fast
flow of electricity the DRAM works a charm. SDRAM (Synchronous
Dynamic RAM) is a extremely fast piece of hardware, its speed is 133
MHz where as a RAM is not as fast and won’t work as well. It works by
using input and output devices linked to a built internal clock. ROM
(Read-Only Memory) is a non-volatile memory which means it stills
stores the information even if the computer has no power going to it,
which RAMs do not, they are called volatile.

7. • Technical Information: ‘ATA’
• PATA Cables (Parallel ATA) this cable is used to link many different types
of hardware, for example you can link the hard drive itself to the
motherboard via the PATA cable. The cable has a 40 pin, which allows the
cable to link to all different hard-ware components, because 40 is a very
strong number to transfer data between. It also links to many other hard
ware components like the disk drive, and floppy drive.
• SATA Cables (Serial ATA) these are a lot faster and better than the PATA
cable. Because it offers less cable usage which saves more money than
PATA, allows hot swapping allows you to take it out when ever, also it
works a lot faster because it uses a higher signal rate and also and allows
the fact that lets you to use a queuing protocol too. The SATA cable is
faster than PATA. e-SATA External Serial ATA is a newer and better, at
least triple’s the speed of USB 2.0, and FireWire 400.