A disk that can hold 25 GB of video data
A disk that can hold 50 GB of video data
What is a single layer Blue-ray disk
What is a dual-layer Blue-ray disk
100
The number is written in hex and is called the
What is Mac Address
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100
A protection against overheating slowing down the processors speed
What is Throttling?
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Multiple video cards in the
same system for Nvidia and ATI.
What is Sli or Crossfire?
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A self reporting system on the hard drive that can monitor temperature, spin up time, and other mechanical actives of a hard drive.
What is S.M.A.R.T Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology?
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What are the group of input standards that represent music in digital form?
What is MIDI
200
transmission, which means
both people in a conversation can talk or transmit at the same time.
What is full-duplex
PG 482
200
Is running a motherboard or processor at a higher speed than the manufacturer suggests is called
What is Overclocking?
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200
IEEE 1394 is the standard for this connector.
What is FireWIre?
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The partition the file system is written to.
What is the Primary Partition?
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Lets you capture TV video input and save it to a file on your hard drive.
What is TV Tuner Card
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300
Used by most cell phone service providers
in the United States for domestic calls.
What is Code Division Multiple Access CDMA?
PG 481
300
One type of memory located on the processors?
What is Lx Cache? (L1 L2 L3)?
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Ports coming directly off the motherboard.
What are on-board ports?
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transfers data directly from the drive to memory without involving the CPU
What is DMA (direct memory access) transfer mode?
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A storage device that uses memory chips and no moving parts to store data instead of spinning
disks
What is SSD / Solid State Drive?
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A transmission that works in only one direction at a time because the walkie-talkies are using the same frequency to both send and receive data.
What is half-duplex
PG 482
400
Allows each logical processor within the processor package to
handle an individual thread in parallel with other threads being handled by other
processors within the package
What is Hyper Threading (Intel) or Hyper Transport (AMD)?
PG165
400
The next evolution of graphics slot.
What is PCI-X?
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A process of adding track and sector marking before leaving the factory.
What is Low-Level Formatting?
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an inexpensive way of backing up an entire hard
drive or portions of it.
What is Tape Drives
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Has a range of only 10 meters, works in the 2.4-GHz frequency range, transfers data at up to 3 Mbps.
What is Bluetooth
PG 482
500
Cools the processor off and is larger on desktop computers.
What is A Cooler, Fan, or Heat-sinks?
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A video standards for many years before PCI.
What is AGP?
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Allows you to connect and disconnect a drive while the
system is running.