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- "Barebones" and "Barebone" redirect here. For the English preacher and Member of Parliament see Praise-God Barebone.
A barebone computer is a half-assembled platform that consists of a case with a power supply, a motherboard preinstalled into the system case, and a cooling system. Barebone computers are designed in any standard form factor, or also, non-standard way, out of widely available hardware parts. The purchaser of such a platform only has to equip it with a CPU, RAM, hard drive and additional input/output devices depending on his/her own needs.
Barebones systems sometimes include a CPU or RAM, and rarely any mass storage media (hard drives) or Operating System.
Assembling a barebone computer by hand is usually less expensive than buying a pre-installed computer from a retailer. Barebone cases can be of almost any size or form factor on the market. Some microATX forms offer a reduced footprint that can result in limited space for extra I/O devices or PCI cards.
See also
- Barebook
- Small form factor
- Shuttle Inc.
- Pricewatch
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