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Primary PC components

Primary PC components

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Primary PC components

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- Look at all this fun stuff I've got in front of me. This is pretty much anything most people are... Well, I better say 99.99% of folks are gonna have on a standard desktop computer. Now, in this episode, which I call Primary PC Components, really, all we're trying to do here is a quick little overview to make sure we know the names of all this stuff. That way, as we go through the series, and if I refer to something, you'll know what I'm talking about. So the most important part that I want to talk about more than anything else is this beautiful system right here. What you're looking at here is what we call the system unit. Now, the system unit is really the computer, Inside of here are the CPU, the brain to the system, RAM, hard drives, all the stuff we need to actually make the computer go. But the problem with the computer is it has to deal with these really, really terrible things called human beings. So as human…

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