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"Barebones" and "Barebone" redirect here. For the English preacher and Member of Parliament see Praise-God Barebone. Praise-God Barebone (or Barbon; c 1598 &ndash 1679 was an English Leather -seller Preacher and Fifth Monarchist.

A barebone computer is a partially-assembled platform or an unassembled kit that can consist of any combination of: case, power supply, motherboard, CPU, RAM, video card, and/or a cooling system. A computer case (also known as the computer chassis, cabinet, tower, box, enclosure, housing or simply case Power supply is a reference to a source of Electrical power. A device or system that supplies Electrical or other types of Energy to an output load A motherboard is the central or primary Printed circuit board (PCB making up a complex electronic system such as a modern Computer or Laptop A video card, also known as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter, or graphics card, is a hardware component whose function is to Computer cooling is the process of removing heat from computer components Barebone computers are available in nearly any form factor.

The purchaser of such a platform only has to equip it with a CPU, RAM, hard drive (if these are not already included) and additional input/output devices depending on his/her needs. A hard disk drive ( HDD) commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk, or fixed disk drive, is a Non-volatile storage device

Barebones systems sometimes include a CPU or RAM, but rarely any mass storage media (hard drives) or Operating System.

Assembling a barebone computer by hand is usually less expensive than buying a pre-configured computer from a retailer. Some microATX forms offer a reduced footprint that can result in limited space for extra I/O devices or PCI cards. microATX, also known as µATX (sometimes Transliterated as mATX or uATX on Online forums is a Small form factor standard

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