Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

5.4 Motherboard and CPU

Activity 13 (exploratory)

Watch the third section of the ‘Inside the box’ video (entitled ‘Deep inside – the motherboard and CPU’), which continues the exploration of a desktop PC by giving you an overview of the motherboard and the CPU. In this closing section of the video you will see how the transistor bridges the computer science and engineering views.

Active content not displayed. This content requires JavaScript to be enabled, and a recent version of Flash Player to be installed.
Inside the box: section 3
Transcript (opens in new window)

OpenLearn - Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
ou logoCreative Commons non-commercial share alike icon Except for third party materials and otherwise, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence, full copyright detail can be found in the acknowledgements section. Please see full copyright statement for details.