SYSTEM UNIT


Meaning of SYSTEM UNIT in English

< hardware > The main body of a computer, consisting of a plastic or metal enclosure, the motherboard , and (typically) internal disk drives , a power supply , cooling fans, and whatever circuit boards plugged into the mother board, such as a video card .

The system unit is occasionally referred to as the CPU , though this really means central processing unit .

(2000-08-10)

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