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02/28/2011

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Term
External Data Bus
Definition
The communication device of the CPU is called?
Term
1.0
Definition
In the binary systen the number___ represents the On state and the number ____ represents off
Term
Binary
Definition
___ Numbering system is used to describe the state of a wire at any given moment.
Term
Registers
Definition
The Temporary storage area of a CPU are called
Term
System crystals or system clock
Definition
The ____ determines the speed at which a CPU and the rest of the PC operate
Term
Motherboard
Definition
The system crystal is a quartz oscillator soldered to the
Term
Program
Definition
____ is a series of commands sent to a CPU in a specific order for processing.
Term
Memory
Definition
devices that hole ones and seroes that the CPU accesses are known generally as ___
Term
MCC or address bus
Definition
The ____ enables the CPU to communicate with the RAM
Term
square
Definition
PGA CPU's are ____ in shape with hundreds of tiny pins.
Term
zero insertion force (ZIF)
Definition
Intel designed ___ sockets to make CPU insertion and removal easier
Term
L1 cache
Definition
The Memory closest to the CPU is called
Term
cache
Definition
A _____ helps to set data aside in a special fast storage area
Term
L1, L2, L3
Definition
Some CPUs include three caches. They are ___
Term
bytes
Definition
RAM is measured in
Term
RAM, SRAM
Definition
The CPU can access data quickest when its stored in
Term
overclocking
Definition
forcing the system to run faster than the speeed its designed for is
Term
system crystal
Definition
The speed at which the CPU and the rest of the system operate is determined by
Term
pipeline
Definition
A __ is the series of steps that the CPU uses to process a command
Term
hyperthreading
Definition
With _______ each individual pipeline can run more than one thread at a time
Term
frontside bus
Definition
the connection between the CPU, the MCC, and the RAM is called
Term
Multimedia extensions
Definition
For processing graphics, ______ added four new registers and 57 new commands to the Pentium codebook
Term
100-133
Definition
Pentium III Sec-2 CPU had an external speed range of ____ MHZ.
Term
backside bus
Definition
Connection between the CPU and the L2 cache is called
Term
hypertransport
Definition
The AMD Opteron includes an I/O data path knows as
Term
Multicore
Definition
CPU packages with more than two CPU's are called
Term
lower
Definition
Most mobile processors run at ___ speeds than the processor used in a desktop computer
Term
Byte
Definition
Ram is arranged in ____ sized rows
Term
MCC
Definition
Devices that retrieves data from RAM and places it on the external data bus is called
Term
square
Definition
ZIF sockets are now universal and are easily identified by their ___ shape and removal arm
Term
SRAM
Definition
What kind of RAM is cache typically made of
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