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Motherboard |
Spine of the computer aka main board, system board. ..it links all other components together |
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PCB |
Printed circuit board, a conductive series of pathways laminated to a non-conductive substrate |
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Substrate |
In electronics & thin film elections, the physical material upon which a semi -conductor device is applied |
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ATX |
Advanced technology extended |
Motherboard |
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ITX |
Information technology extended. ....Motherboard form factor developed as a low-power small form factor |
Home theater system&embedded components |
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Throughput |
How far the signal can travel and the amount of data moved power unit of time |
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Bus architecture |
Serial connectivity Parallel connectivity |
Two types |
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System board components |
Chip set Expansion slots & buses Memory shoes and external cache Part connectors CPU & their sockets Inboard disc drive connectors Keyboard connectors BIOS /firmware Integrated peripheral parts and headers CMOS battery Front panel connectors Jumpers and dip switched |
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Bus |
Common collection of signal pathways over which related devices communicate within the computer system |
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BSB |
Backside bus. ..set signals between cpu and level 2 or 3 cache memory |
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FSB |
Front side bus. ..set of signal pathways connecting the cpu and main memory |
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Southbridge |
Supporting onboard slower peripherals, managing communications with the rest of the computer& resources given to them |
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Northridge |
Management of high speed peripherals communication |
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Chipset |
Collection of chips or circuit that perform interface and peripheral functions for processors |
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CNR |
Communication and network riser.....slot found on older Intel mb replaced earlier amr slots |
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GPU |
Graphic processing unit |
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PCIe |
Peripheral component interconnect express X1 X2 x4 x8 x12 x16 x32 Newer expansion slot architecture being used by MB replaces AGP & PCI Fastest and flexability |
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SLI |
Scalable link interface |
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AGP |
Accelerated graphic port |
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PCI-x |
Peripheral components interconnect - Uses same spot as 64 bit PCI Max throughput 4266Mbps~ 4.3GBps... Speed and support for got plugging but no match for PCIe |
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PCI |
Peripherals component interconnect. .. Operates@33 or 66mhz over 32 bit channel resulting in data rates at 133 or 266 |
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Expansion slot |
PCI, AGP PCIE PCI-X CNR |
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Cache memory |
Very fast form of memory forged from static RAM |
Predicting what's needed next and prefetching. it |
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Virtual memory |
Swap file or passing file uses hard drive as additional RAM |
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SIMM |
Single inline memory module |
Older memory factor form factor that began the trend of placing memory chips on modules |
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SODIMM |
Small outline dual inline memory module |
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DIMM |
Dual inline memory module |
Type of circuit board memory chips are arranged on. ..168, 184, 240 pin configuration |
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RAM |
Random access memory |
Primary memory that is used to store currently used data and instructions for cpu |
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Increasing order of capacity and distance from processor |
L1Cache :64 KB L2 Cache :256 KB L3 Cache :4 MB - 12 MB RAM: 4-16GB HDD/SD 100s -1000s GB |
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MBR |
Master boot record |
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BIOS |
Basic input/output system |
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Firmware |
Name given to any software encoded in hardware, usually a ROM |
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OS |
Operating system |
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ROM |
Read only-memory |
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ZIF |
Zero insertion force socket |
Uses plastic or metal lever |
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LGA |
Land Grid Array |
Places delicate pins on motherboard instead of on CPU |
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PGA |
Pin grid array |
Has holes to receive the pins on the cpu |
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CPU |
Central processing unit |
The"brain"of any computer |
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HDD |
Hard disk drive |
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SMP |
Symmetric multiprocessor |
OS must support SMP to take advantage of HTT |
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HTT |
Hyperthreading. Technology |
Htt capable processors appear to os as 2 processors resulting in 2 processes at same time |
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ESD |
Electrostatic discharge |
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CMOS |
Complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor |
Memory chip |
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GPU |
Graphic processing unit |
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SPEED |
Clock frequency (MHz or GHz) |
System clock |
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Throttling |
Reducing the operating frequency of CPU at less demanding operation or during battery operation |
Very common in mobile devices |
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DDR3 SDRAM |
double data rate type three synchronous dynamic random-access memory |
Double performance of DDR2, double pumping cont. for operations occur (8 cycle) |
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DDR2 SDRAM |
double data rate type two synchronous dynamic random-access memory |
Lost pal voltage to keep power consumption down, double pumping 4x throughput |
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Module throughput |
FSB MHZ (seconds) X 8 Bytes (bytes) = throughput (bytes/seconds) |
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DDR SDRAM |
Double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory |
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SDRAM DRAM |
Single data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory |
System clock ticks=1 bit data that is transmitted per data pin |
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SDRAM |
Synchronous dynamic random access memory |
Shares a common clock with the computer system bus clock |
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ADRAM |
Asynchronous dynamic random access memory |
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DRAM |
Dynamic random access memory |
Expansion of memory your adding DRAM |
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Bottleneck |
Communicating over single channel in an environment where CPU and memory can operate faster than the conduit between them |
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SODIMM |
Small outline dual inline memory module |
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MicroDIMM |
Micro dual inline memory module |
Newer, smaller, rarer ram form factor 50% smaller than SODIMM |
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RIMM |
Rambus inline memory module |
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C-RIMM |
Continuity rambus inline memory module |
A sort of blank |
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CT-RIMM |
Continuity&termination rambus inline memory module |
32 bit required |
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DIMM |
Dual inline memory module |
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ROM |
read only memory |
Stores BIOS, enables system to boot |
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SRAM |
Static random access memory |
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DR DRAM |
Direct Rambus dynamic random access memory |
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Air flow |
Back to front pull air through |
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Fans |
Front intake Rear exhaust Power supply exhaust CPU chipset Video card chipset |
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