Hardware is a comprehensive term for all of the physical parts of a computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the software that provides instructions for the hardware to accomplish tasks. A closely related category is Digital circuit. The boundary between hardware and software is slightly blurry — firmware is software that is "built-in" to the hardware, but such firmware is usually the province of computer programmers and computer engineers.

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Arcade system boards Avionics computers C Computer and video game hardware Computer and video game platforms Computer buses Computer device Computer hardware by owner Computer hardware companies

C cont. Computer memory Computer printers Computer storage D Digital electronics Display technology E Early computers Electronic design automation Embedded systems G Graphics cards

I Individual computers M Mainframe computers Microcomputers Microprocessors Military computers Minicomputers S Computer hardware stubs Supercomputers

Articles in category "Computer hardware"

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Computer hardware 3 36-bit word length A ABIT BP6 AT form factor ATX Accelerator (computing) Advanced Communications Riser Aircooling Applix 1616 Architectural state Audio/modem riser Auto-configuration Autodetection B Backplane List of device bandwidths Beige box Bell 103 modem Bell 202 modem Computing blade Blade server Bomba (cryptography) Bombe Bong cooler C CMOS CPU cooling Cable modem Cell (microprocessor) Central processing unit Centrino Chipset Commodore MAX Machine Common Hardware Reference Platform Computer case Computer cooling

C cont. Control store Coprocessor Cryptanalytic computer D Digital Visual Interface Digital circuit Distributed Array Processor Drive bay Dual-core Dumb terminal F Freebox G Graphics processing unit Green screen H HP 9000 HP Integrity Halt and Catch Fire Heat pipe History of computer hardware in communist countries J Jumper (computing) L LEON Liquid cooling for computers Liquid crystal display television M Magnetic storage Microprogram Modem Motherboard N NEC SX-6 Network card Network processor Northbridge (computing) Null modem O OpenRISC Overclocking Overvolting P PC motherboard PPU

P cont. Peripheral Plug-and-play PowerPC Reference Platform Processor Processor register Programmed input/output Punch card Punched tape Q Quad Data Rate SDRAM R RT.X100 19-inch rack Register file Reset button Ring 0 S SEX (computers) Server farm Simplified instructional computer Simputer Solid state disk Southbridge (computing) List of Soviet computer systems T TV tuner card Tektronix 4014 Ten15 List of computer hardware terms Turion 64 U 16550 UART V VGA connector Very-large-scale integration Video editing card W Water block Watercooling Web cam Winmodem Computer workstation