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| electrostatic discharge. static damage silicon |
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| accelerated graphics port. attches video card to mobo |
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| higher bus speed and bandwidth |
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| restart while computer on / start up while cpu off |
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| boot loader contains boot sector to load os |
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| peripheral component interconnect, attach hw device to cpu |
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| industry standard architechture- ibms computer bus |
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| randomly access any location |
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| read only memory - maintain data without power but cant be written |
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| rom - read only, dram - dynamic random access memory, sram - static ram |
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| megahurts and gighertz measured |
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| crystal oscillates millions or billions cycles per seconds. one hz is one clock cycle |
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| 1000 megahurtz = gigahurt |
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| freq of oscillator crystal measured in hz |
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| static ram, faster dram no need for refresh rate |
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| synchronous dyanmic. syncd with system bus responds quickly to inputs |
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| dual inline memory module. contacts on both sides |
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| small outline dual in-line memory module, laptop memory |
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| nanosecond or mhz, how long for one cycle |
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| soft and hard. hard requires replacement while soft nonpermanent |
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| information transferrs in out bit at a time..modems sat phones |
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| specifies a computer bus to a memory location |
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| system transferes data b/w components in a computer |
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| programs used to direct the operation of a computer or give instruction |
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| electrical components making up a computer |
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| basic unit of information |
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| atx, btx, wtx, nlx, lpx, at |
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| measure of width of range of freq |
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| pentium, celeron, core 2 duo, core i3 i5 i7, itanium |
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| k5, k6, k10, ahtlon, duron, fx, phenom |
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| high speed memory that temp stores data processor needs |
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| tries to remember freq used items, if not in l1 then goes to l2, finally l3 |
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| balanced technology extended, increased component power and cooling requirements |
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| smaller, reduced size//biggest |
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| match the pairs of ram in correct slots |
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