CHAPTER 1 MBs, PROCESSORS, MEMORY Flashcards
____ expansion slots are known mostly for legacy video card use and have been supplanted in new installations by PCI Express slots and their adapters.
Accelerated Graphics Port(AGP)
_____ has the advantage of being faster than AGP while maintaining the flexability of PCI.
PCIe .
___________ slot that can be found on some older Intel motherboards was a replacement for Intel’s even earlier audio modem riser (AMR) slot, each which appeared in quantities of no more than one per motherboard.
CNR expansion slots
What are the most notable slots on a motherboard?
RAM(Random Access Memory)
Laptops memory comes in a smaller form factor s known as _______ and ______?
SoDIMMS AND MICRO DIMMS
How many pins does a SODIMM have?
144 pin. and 72 pin.
The brains of the computer is called_____? page 20
Central Processing Unit.(CPU)
For CPU’s based on the PGA concept, _____(ZIF) sockets are exceedingly popular page 21
ZERO Insertion Force
The bottom socket is known as socket ___ or socket ____ ____.
page 21
Socket T or Socket LGA 775
________ is the name given to any software that is encoded in hardware, usually a read-only memory(ROM) chip, and can be run without any extra instructions from the O.S. page 24
Firmware.
The most important chip is the _______ chip. page 24
Basic Input/Output system chip (BIOS)
_____ on the motherboard is known as external cache because it is external to the proccessor. page 20
Cache.
________ is internal cache because it is built in to the processor’s silicon wafer or die. die is often interchangeable with the word _____. page 20
level 1 cache and “core”.
A _____ has 168 pins. page 18
DIMM.
T/F. PCI slots are manufactures in 3.3v and 12v versions.
False 3.3v and 5v
