Prompt 6 of 7
Name a computer part (accessories don't count)
293 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Clock generator— Its quartz crystal oscillates in megahertz, multiplied up to gigahertz.
85 ptsDeep Cut251 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- 13W3 connector
- 24-pin ATX connector
- Accelerator card
- Accelerometer
- Actuator arm
- AGP slot
- ALU
- Ambient light sensor
- Antenna
- Apple Desktop Bus
- Apple Display Connector
- AT power connector
- Atari SIO
- Back cover
- Backlight
- Backplane
- Backplate
- Battery latch
- Beeper
- Berg connector
- Bernoulli drive
- Bezel
- Bluetooth card
- BMC
- BNC connector
- Bottom case
- Bubble memory
- Bus
- Capture card
- Card reader
- Cartridge slot
- Case feet
- CD audio cable
- Chassis intrusion switch
- Chinese language card
- Choke
- CMOS RAM
- COM header
- Commodore serial bus
- Control unit
- CPU card
- CPU core
- CPU power connector
- CPU socket
- Datasette port
- DC power jack
- Dekatron
- Delay line memory
- Die
- DIMM slot
- DIN connector
- Diode
- DIP switch
- Disk controller
- Disk pack
- DisplayPort
- DMS-59
- Docking connector
- DRAM cache
- Drive bay
- Drum memory
- DSP
- Dust filter
- DVI port
- EISA slot
- EMI shield
- eMMC
- eSATA port
- Europe Card Bus
- Expansion card
- Expansion slot cover
- Fan cable
- Fan controller
- Fan header
- Fan shroud
- Fingerprint sensor
- FireWire card
- FireWire port
- Floppy cable
- Front audio header
- Front panel header
- Front-panel I/O
- Fuse
- Game port
- GPIB
- Gyroscope
- Heat pipe
- Heat spreader
- Hinge
- I/O shield
- IC socket
- IDE cable
- Infrared camera
- Integrated circuit
- Inverter
- IrDA port
- ISA slot
- Jaz drive
- Jumper
- Kensington lock slot
- Key switch
- Keyboard backlight
- Keyboard encoder
- Keyboard key
- Keyboard PCB
- Keyboard plate
- Keyboard stabilizer
- Keylock
- Kickstand
- LCD cable
- LED
- Lid switch
- Low Pin Count bus
- M.2 slot
- Magnetic core memory
- Magneto-optical drive
- Massbus
- Math coprocessor
- Memory controller
- Memory expansion card
- Memory management unit
- Micro Channel
- Microdrive
- MIDI port
- Mini PCI
- Mini PCIe slot
- Modem port
- Molex connector
- Mouse ball
- Mouse button
- mSATA
- Multibus
- NAND flash
- Nixie tube
- Northbridge
- NPU
- NuBus
- Numeric keypad
- Operator panel
- Optical sensor
- Package substrate
- Palm rest
- Paper tape reader
- Parallel port
- PC Card slot
- PC/104
- PCI-X slot
- PCIe power connector
- Peltier cooler
- Phase-change cooler
- Physics card
- Pin header
- Platter
- Plugboard
- PMIC
- PocketZip
- Pointing stick
- POST card
- Power button
- Power distribution board
- Processor Direct Slot
- Proximity sensor
- PS/2 port
- PSU cables
- PSU shroud
- PSU switch
- Pump
- Punch card reader
- Q-Bus
- Radiator
- RAID controller
- RAMDAC
- RCA jack
- Read/write head
- Real-time clock
- Registers
- Relay
- Reservoir
- Reset button
- Resistor
- REV drive
- RF modulator
- RGB header
- RGB lighting
- Ribbon cable
- Riser cable
- S-100 bus
- S/PDIF port
- SAS cable
- SATA cable
- SATA port
- SBus
- SCART
- Screws
- Scroll wheel
- SCSI port
- Selectron tube
- Serial port
- Serial/parallel card
- Seven-segment display
- Side panel
- SIM card slot
- SLI bridge
- Smart card reader
- Southbridge
- Speaker grille
- Spindle
- SRAM
- SS-50 bus
- SSHD
- STD Bus
- STEbus
- Stylus
- Subwoofer
- SuperDisk
- SyQuest drive
- Tape drive
- Temperature sensor
- Thermal pad
- Thin-film memory
- Thunderbolt port
- TPM
- Trackball
- Transformer
- Tubing
- Turbo button
- TURBOchannel
- TV out
- TV tuner card
- Twistor memory
- U.2
- UFS
- Unibus
- USB controller
- USB expansion card
- User port
- Vacuum fluorescent display
- Vacuum tube
- Vapor chamber
- Vent
- VESA Local Bus
- VGA port
- VMEbus
- Voltage regulator
- Voltage selector switch
- VRAM
- Water block
- Webcam privacy shutter
- Williams tube
- Zip drive
- Zorro slot
60 ptsRare21 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- BIOS chip
- Cache
- Capacitor
- Case— Tower or chassis, not the sleeve you carry a laptop in.
- Chipset
- CMOS battery
- CPU cooler
- Ethernet port
- Expansion slot
- Floppy drive
- Heat sink
- Liquid cooling
- Microphone
- Modem
- Network card
- PCB
- ROM
- Thermal paste
- Touchscreen
- Transistor
- Wi-Fi card
30 ptsSchooler15 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Audio jack
- Fan
- Graphics card
- Hard drive
- HDMI port
- Laptop battery
- Motherboard
- Optical drive
- Power supply
- Solid state drive
- Sound card
- Speaker
- Trackpad
- USB port
- Webcam
10 ptsPlankton5 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- CPU
- Keyboard
- Monitor
- Mouse
- RAM