
The ASRock includes a Blu-ray DVD-RW combo drive as standard and combined with the HDMI port on the rear panel, this means it can plug straight into your HDTV. It's a bit of a tit-for-tat trade off though. These days, for £400 you can get yourself a low end Core 2 system with 3/4GB RAM, a half terabyte hard drive and the OS pre-installed. This brings the ASRock further into competition with budget desktop PCs. Instead the price tag - which tops £300 - only includes the base unit, so remember you're also looking at another £60 for a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. For many of us this isn't a big deal especially (especially as Windows 7 installs in less than 15 minutes anyway) but the target audience for this kind of machine, would, we think, want to just plug in the monitor and be surfing the internet in a few minutes. An optional DVD/CD player/recorder for reading/writing DVDs/CDs.The packageLike many of the net-tops we've encountered, the ASRock doesn't come with an OS pre-installed.

Hard disk, this is the permanent memory of your computer where your data is stored. Those integrated video boards are generally not very well suited for playing games, but good enough for watching movies. Micro ATX motherboards often have an integrated video board. Video board, this is the part of your computer that is responsible for the graphics processing. Often it has some integrated components like a sound card, enabling your computer to play sound, or a network card, to connect your computer to the network.

Motherboard, this is the component that connects all the different parts of your computer. Memory (RAM), this is very fast memory in which temporary data is stored before being processed by the processor. A processor (CPU), this is the heart of your computer, where the data processing is done. They always have the following components: Personal Computers, PCs for short, are computers for personal usage.
