CPU/Mobo
Networking Essentials
Ports
How Fast are you and how beefy?
PSU
100

an older term for the place where the processor connects to the motherboard.

What is the front-side bus?

100

both of them use pulses of light to transmit data.

What are infrared and Fiber Optics?

100

The port number for HTTP.

What is 80?

100

It's the transfer rate for SATA3 HDDs

What is 6Gbps?

100

All PATA drives use it for power connection

What is MOLEX

200

A newer term sometimes used to mean the wires that connect the processor to the motherboard, on which data travels.

What is the data bus?
200

Both of them use radio waves to transmit data

What are Wifi and Cellular networking?

200
It's the port used for IMAP.

What is 143.

200

A fast Internet connection and superior cooling system are important for PCs that are being used this way.

What is an online gaming PC?

200

It's the number of pins on a SATA data connection

What is 7?

300

Where the memory controller resides in newer computer systems.

What is on the CPU?

300

The type of network cable that uses ST, SC, LC, and FC connectors, among others.

What is fiber optic?

300

It's the port used for HTTPS.

What is 443

300

It's the type of computer that needs a very fast network connection because the work is mostly done on the server.

What is a thin client?

300

It's a way that the PSU manufacturer makes sure current is separated for different devices connected to the power supply.  It makes the PSU more stable.

What are power supply rails?

400

Memory that can't be upgraded once you purchase the processor.

What is cache?

400

It's the maximum length of a Cat 6 cable between the switch and a workstation.

What is 100 meters, (or 327 feet)

400

It's the port number for secure shell.

What is 22?

400

They are both components that need to be higher end on a CAD (Computer Aided Design) PC than on a simple desktop.

What are graphics card and CPU

400

It's the type of power supply that lets you plug in just the connectors that you want.

What is modular?

500

It goes by numbers like Intel H310 and B360, and has ICs that hold the computer's BIOS.

What is the chipset?

500

It's the type of network address shorthand that looks something like 123.222.55.1/8

What is CIDR?

500

It's the port number used for remote support.

What is 3389

500

It's probably the one you would use to connect someone's TV to their laptop so they can watch Netflix, if they don't have a smart TV.

What is HDMI

500

The official name for the standard commonly called ATX 2.0 or ATX P4 which uses a 24 pin P1 connector.

ATX 12V

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