Motherboards
I am a white 24 pin power block that allows the motherboard to be connected to receive power. What am I?
What is a power connector?
We are the main 3 types of cables. We each have different standards and connectors for installing us. What are our names?
What is Coaxial, Twisted Pair, and Fiber Optic Cables?
I am the most common but not the only kind of memory. I am data permanently stored on the drive, am I am stored on modules on a motherboard called DIMMs. What am I?
What is RAM(Random Access Memory)?
What are some types of strage devices?
What is HDD, SSD, and Optical Drives?
What are the 4 main RAID Arrays?
What is RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5,
and RAID 10(1+0)?
I a motherboard form factor specification developed by Intel in 1995. I have a measurement of 9.6" x 12". I have a 20-24 pin connector, and I may have additional power on the motherboard so I may have an additional 4-8 pin connector.
What is a Standard ATX (Advanced Technology Extended)?
I am a specific coaxial cable primarily used for Cable TV, satellite TV, and broadband cable internet. I have a resistance rating of 75 ohms. I require an F-type connector when installing me. What am I ?
What is a R-6 Cable?
What are memory form factors?
What is DIMM, SO-DIMM, DRAM, and SDRAM?
I am used to install various devices on a computer to expand its capabilities. I have two different voltage keys, with voltages of 3.3V and 5V. I was later replaced by a serial technology unlike other expansion buses that have parallel architectures. And I transfer 64 bit data rates, and operate at 33Hz or 66Hz. What am I?
What is PCI Expansion Slots?
I am a cable that transfers data through the core using multiple light rays. I have a core diameter of around 50 to 100 microns. My functionality limits the distance of cable lengths. What am I?
What is a Multi-mode Fiber Optic Cable?
What are the common memory types used today? One has a 240 pin connectors, the second has 288 pin connectors, and the third has 288 pins as well.
What is DDR3, DDR4, amd DDR5?
There are many cases designed for many motherboards. Most cases can fit a standard ATX, in some cases only a ITX is compatible with a case. In this particular case the design is slimmer, but still similar to an ATX tower. I am a component needed when using this specific ATX tower, what am I?
What is a Riser Card?
I require a RJ-45 connector when installing me. I run at a speed of 10 Gbps, and have a frequency of 500 MHz. I limit 10 Gbps speeds to cable lengths less than 100 meters. I also provide additional shielding and tighter cable twists than standard Cat 6, which reduces (alien) crosstalk and makes it less susceptible to EMI.
What is a Cat6 Twisted Pair?
How can you know and prevent yourself from installing \the wrong memory in a system?
What are the different key notches on the different memory modules?
What is the difference between Parity and ECC?
What is ECC detects and corrects errors, and parity can only detect errors sometimes?
I am responsible for managing communication among the CPU memory and various connected components. I dictate how a motherboard will communicate w/ installed periphals. I have two major functional groups. What am I?
What is a motherboard chipset?
We are cable wiring using T568A and T568B standards. These termination standards are used by the internet backbone infrastructure, internet providers, and businesses. One, uses the same wire configuration on each connector end, and the other arranges the wires in the first connector using the T568A standard and arrange the wires in the second connector using the T568B standard. What are we?
What is patch wiring and crossover wiring?
What is the formula to determine the total bandwidth of a PC on an SDRAM?
What is MHz x 8 bytes = total MB/ps (bandwidth)
The faster you can spin the drive of a HD the faster you can read data, what are the standard hard drives categorized for HDDs?
What is 5400 rpm, 7200 rpm, 10,000 rpm, and 15,000 rpm?
You have a computer with three hard disks. A RAID 0 volume uses space on Disk 1 and Disk 2. A RAID 1 volume uses space on Disk 2 and Disk 3. Disk 2 fails. What is the result of Disk 2 failing?
What is Data on the RAID 1 volume is accessible, but Data on the RAID 0 volume is not?