Motherboards & CPUs

Question 0

What tool should be in every technician’s toolkit

Answer 0

Phillips-head screwdriver

Question 1

Three companies make the vast majority of chipsets for PCs

Answer 1

Intel
NVIDIA
AMD

Question 2

Connects the CPU to the fastest devices

Answer 2

Northbridge

Question 3

Also called the Memory Controller Hub (MCH)

Answer 3

Northbridge

Question 4

Also called the I/O Controller Hub (ICH)

Answer 4

Southbridge

Question 5

Motherboard manufacturer’s add a third circuit to handle support for legacy devices and ports

Answer 5

Super I/O Chip

Question 6

Component inside the CPU that holds data before and after processing

Answer 6

Registers

Question 7

Component inside the CPU that handles the primary processing

Answer 7

Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

Question 8

L1 cache is this type of memory

Answer 8

Static RAM

Question 9

Component that sets the clock speed of the motherboard

Answer 9

System crystal

a quartz crystal circuit that oscillates at a fixed frequency when fed current