CPU and Chipset 1
CPU and Chipset 2
CPU and Chipset 3
CPU and Chipset 4
CPU and Chipset 5
100
The ____ installed on a motherboard and the chipset embedded on the board primarily determine the power and features of the system.
What is processor?
100
____ is the ability of a system to do more than one thing at a time.
What is Multiprocessing?
100
____ are small holding areas on the processor chip that work much as RAM does outside the processor.
What is Registers?
100
The portion of the internal bus that connects the processor to the internal memory cache is called the ____ bus.
What is back-side?
100
Inside the processor housing, data, instructions, addresses, and control signals travel on the ____ bus.
What is internal?
200
Running a motherboard or processor at a higher speed than what the manufacturer suggests is called ____.
What is overclocking?
200
Multiprocessing is accomplished when a processor contains more than one ____.
What is ALU?
200
In ____ processing, the processor housing contains two processors that operate at the same frequency, but independently of each other.
What is dual-core?
200
A memory cache on the processor chip is called a(n) ____ cache.
What is internal
200
If there is L2 cache in the processor housing and additional cache on the motherboard, the cache on the motherboard is called ____ cache.
What is Level 3?
300
The Intel Itaniums use a new instruction set called ____.
What is explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC)?
300
Earlier Pentiums used a(n) ____ socket, with pins aligned in uniform rows around the socket.
What is PGA?
300
Current processor sockets are called ____ sockets.
What is zero insertion force (ZIF)?
300
A ____ is a clip-on device that mounts on top of the processor; fingers or fins at its base pull the heat away from the processor.
What is heat sink?
300
The combination heat sink and cooling fan is sometimes called a ____.
What is cooler?
400
The portion of the system bus that transports data into the processor
What is data path?
400
A small amount of RAM that is much faster than the rest of RAM
What is memory cache?
400
A processor that uses Hyper-Threading Technology and dual-core processing and is designed to be used on servers and high-end workstations in a corporate environment
What is Xeon?
400
The fast end of the hub interface, which contains the graphics and memory controller, and connects to the system bus
What is North Bridge?
400
The slower end of the hub interface; contains the I/O controller hub
What is South Bridge?
500
The processor and the ____ determine what type and how much RAM you can use in the system.
What is chipset?
500
Word size of today’s processors is ____ bits or ____ bits.
What are 32, 64?
500
Memory cache is referred to as ____.
What is SRAM?
500
Instructions which are permanently built into the processor chip are called ____.
What is microcode?
500
Some processors use a special type of Level 1 cache. Many times, a processor decides to follow one branch of operations in a program of instructions rather than another branch. Only branches of operations that the processor has determined will be executed are stored in the ____, making the execution process faster.
What is Execution Trace Cache?
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