Hardware Components of a Computer

Optional hardware components that a computer might have include:

• Ports: USB, HDMI, Ethernet, Audio (headphones), etc. Here are images of various computer ports.
• SD or microSD card slots
• CD-ROM read/write drives
• Graphics cards (also called video cards or GPUs.)
• Sound cards
• Wi-Fi or other network cards
• Additional memory slots
• Touch screen/display

We will learn more about the basic and optional hardware devices listed above and on the previous slides as we proceed with our course's topics.