PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

(^360) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Figure 15-16. The parts of the PC case. Original photo courtesy of Enlight Corporation Po ...

Since the earliest form factors, computer cases have included a number of expansion slots (see Figure 15-18) that can be used to ...

(^362) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Figure 15-19. Illustrations of I/O templates showing the port slugs in place. Photo court ...

Power Supply Most system cases come with a power supply (see Figure 15-20) matched to its form factor. However,thepowersupplyisn ...

(^364) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide LEDs, the Speaker, and Some Connecting Wires Under the heading of miscellaneous stuff tha ...

Chapter 15: The System Case^365 have two wires, one that is either black or white and one that is some other color, which have t ...

washers are placed between the standoff and the motherboard and between the motherboard and the screw. This keeps the metal-edge ...

CHAPTER 16 Monitors and Displays 367 Copyright 2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click Here for Terms of Use. ...

(^368) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide T here would be no What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) on PCs if there were no monitor ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^369 The PC Monitor With personal computer technology advancing as fast as it is, it is hard to ...

 Cost Your budget is a very important consideration when shopping for a new monitor. If you cannot spend more than around $400, ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^371 The front glass panel on a standard CRT is like a section out of a ball—curved both horizo ...

(^372) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide LCD Display Sizes As illustrated in Table 16-1, LCD flat-panel displays may provide a bet ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^373 the display by applying current to the pixels at a fixed refresh rate. Active matrix displ ...

(^374) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide on each row of its display. If the resolution is changed to 640 × 480, it is not possible ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^375 Color Depth In addition to its resolution, the color depth of a monitor is another very im ...

(^376) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Change the Screen Area setting to its lowest (the slide all of the way to the left) valu ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^377 Color Depth (in bits) Colors Available Common Name 1 2 Monochrome 4 16 VGA standard 8 256 ...

Signals and Connectors Another major difference between CRT and LCD displays is that a CRT is an analog device that uses an elec ...

and color depths of the VGA and SVGA video standards, the two most commonly used standards today. Over the years, several video ...