Inside a Desktop Computer

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Inside aDesktopComputer

• Larry HolderThe University of Tennessee at
  MartinJanuary 2005

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A view from the back, with power supply removed
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Inside, with power supply removed
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Birds eye view of the motherboard
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The Pentium 4 CPU (with heat sink and fan removed)
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CPU cooling fan and heat sink
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Side view of cooling fan and heat sink
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The DIMM memory
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PCI slots (some used, some empty)
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The battery
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Connections to the CD / DVD Drive
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Parallel(printer)
Video card(blue is VGAanalog video)
PS/2 (keyboard, mouse)
Serial (note the pins)
Network card
USB
MIDI or Joystick
Sound card
Integrated Ports
Expansion Cards
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Power supply from the back
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P1 Molex(HD, CD) Mini(floppy) P4
Molex and mini connectorsYellow12 V, Red5 V,
BlackGround
Power supply and connectors
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The P4 power connector (yellow is 12 volts, black
is ground)
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The main ( P1 ) power slot on the motherboard
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Additional ( P4 ) Power slot on the motherboard
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Inside aRack-MountedServer
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Two Dell 2850 servers, top removed, connected to
standard monitor, etc.
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Front view
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Back view. Note the dual power supplies.
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A view from the top. Note the wind tunnel
(black)in the middle, to channel airfrom the
front fans to theback fans
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Three fans pushing air through the CPU area (note
1 CPU socket empty)
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A side view of the CPU fans and CPU heat sink
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DIMM memory (6 slots, 2 used, 1 GB sticks for a
total of 2 GB)Also note the battery
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A view from the back
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Unused CPU socket (for an Intel Xeon)
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PCI slots (all 3 are presently unused)
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PCI slots and the area where ports would be
located
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Really fuzzy photo of the two Gigabit network
ports (also two USB ports)
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Front view. Note the disk drives with easy
front-load access.
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Easy disk drive removal . . .
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Level swings to the left, and disk drive pulls out
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Disk drive completely removed
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Back view of disk drive
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Label on the top of the disk drive
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Thats all, folks!