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A BareBone System, also known as a base system, is an unassembled personal computer kit that allows you to make your own unique computer as per your requirements. Generally, people opt for a BareBone system so that they have the flexibility of adding other components of their choice to their computers. For example, they might like to add components such as a brand of central processing unit (CPU) that they prefer or perhaps a sophisticated video card and adapters and so on.
A motherboard is popularly known as a mobo and is available as a part of all BareBone systems. The mobo is the main circuit board of a BareBone system. It contains all the connectors that are required for attaching additional devices. Normally, a motherboard contains chips like a BIOS, a memory, mass storage interfaces, serial and parallel ports and so on. The mobo also has expansion slots which are required to control additional devices. These additional devices can be a display screen, a keyboard, a mouse or a hard disk drive. Chips that are present on the motherboard are known as chipsets. It is possible to add more memory chips to the motherboard for expanding your system. If required, the CPU chip can easily be replaced by a more powerful one. There could be situations when the entire motherboard needs to be replaced.
A CPU is the most important component of any computer. Often called the brain of the computer, the CPU is where almost all computing calculations take place. It is also popularly know as the processor.
A video adapter is required to support the graphic requirement of the system. The video adapter ensures optimum colours and graphics rendering. However, there has to be compatibility between the video adapter and the display monitor in a BareBone system. For example, even if a video adapter is very powerful, it cannot display colours on a monochrome monitor. Many types of video adapters are available and most conform to standards defined by IBM and VESA. These adapters have two built-in features. One, they contain their own memory and do not use the computer’s RAM for storing graphic data; and two, they have their own graphics processor.
A hard disk drive is the device that reads, writes and stores data in a system. High-end hard disk drives, generally, take a processing time of about 12 milliseconds or less. To improve their performances, hard disk drives have caches. Caches are virtual or temporary memory to store data. IDE and SCSI are the most common interfaces used to transfer data from the computer to a hard disk.
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