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Lesson 20

PC Hardware

I have a desktop PC. It has been
rigged primarily as a game machine. It

has a 21-inch LCD monitor I got from a
throwaway sale. It runs on a dual

boot system, a Windows 2000 on drive
C for Internet surfing and Windows XP on

drive D for games. It has got a Pentium

4, 3.2 megahertz CPU, an Asus mother-
board, 60 gigabyte hard disk drive (big
enough to contain the 10 games I installed), graphic card GeForce FX 5200

128 Megabytes DDR Ram, a 32 bit sound card, and two 256 DDR memory

sticks.

I love to over clock my PC, push it to its smoking limits. For this purpose, I
installed three system fans and the latest CPU cooler for my steaming CPU. Of

course, for a total gaming experience, I hooked up a cool set of speaker, (6
satellites and one humungous subwoofer that goes boom-boom-boom and

threatens to collapse the ceiling).

Comprehension

1. Describe the writer’s PC.
2. What is “throwaway sale”?
3. According to the paragraph, what did the writer install for steaming CPU?

Questions

1. Do you have your own PC? If yes, what are its
specifications?
2. What do you usually use your PC for?
3. Which one do you prefer, desktop or laptop? Why?
4. How many hours do you use the Internet?

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