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| Chips soldered onto a card of some type are called RAM sticks |
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| What will tell you precisely what sort of module you need and how much RAM you can install? |
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| Your motherboard manual will tell you precisely what sort of module you need and how much RAM you can install in your system. |
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| What form of error checking was used by early RAM technologies? |
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| Early RAM technologies used parity as a form of error checking. |
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| What is the delay in RAM response time called? |
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| Windows uses a portion of the hard drive as an extension of system RAM, called a __________. |
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| What are the minimum system RAM requirements for Windows Vista (32-bit)? |
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| Windows XP needs _______________ MB of RAM as a reasonable minimum. |
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| The _______________ functions like an electronic spreadsheet, with numbered rows containing cells. |
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| When the user loads a program, where is it copied before it is run? |
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| Access speed of RDRAM is measured in _______________. |
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| Any device that holds programs or data that the CPU can access via the address bus is defined as memory. |
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| What's the difference between PC2-3200 and DDR2-400? |
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| Nothing. Both have a core RAM clock speed of 100 MHz, a DDR I/O speed of 200 MHz, a DDR2 speed rating of DDR2-400, and a PC speed rating of PC2-3200. |
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| In SDRAM, what does the S represent? |
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| What should you use while installing a SO-DIMM? |
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| You should use an anti-static wrist strap. |
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| All unused RIMM slots on an RDRAM motherboard should have a device called a ____ installed on them. |
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| How is DDR RAM faster than regular SDRAM? |
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| Double data rate SDRAM (DDR RAM) is faster than regular SDRAM because it doubles the throughput. |
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| Also known as the RAM cache, it is a portion of the hard drive set aside to "swap" data to when system RAM becomes full. |
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| The _______________ doubles the output of SDRAM by making two processes every clock cycle. |
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| ouble data rate (DDR) SDRAM |
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| Because RDRAM could be used only with Intel components, AMD developed _______________. |
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| What is a mass storage device? |
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| A mass storage device is a device that can hold data when the computer is turned off. |
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