It's the device that provides electricity to the components.
What is Power Supply?
100
This device is plugged into a socket soldered onto the motherboard.
What is CPU?
100
It handles expansion devices and mass storage drives.
What is Southbridge?
100
The foundation of a computer which connects to all other components.
What is the motherboard?
100
This maintains the data entered in the configuration program.
What is CMOS Battery?
200
Pathways that connect the CPU to the L2 or L3cache.
What is Backside Bus?
200
The CPU and what component in the computer have to be matched, much like the light bulbs in a socket, which have to match in shape and voltage of the socket they are installed into.
What is the Motherboard?
200
I/O Controller Hub
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What is Southbridge also called?
200
The device that stores files and programs for a long time.
What is Hard Drive?
200
Pathways that connect the CPU to the memory.
What is Frontside Bus?
300
A component that could operate separately, but is built into another object to become one unit.
What is Integrated?
300
You are useful when installing a CPU into these type of sockets.
What are ZIF sockets?
300
A chip that helps the CPU to work with the RAM.
What is Northbridge?
300
Random Access Memory
What is RAM?
300
The system of pathways on a motherboard over which devices communicate.
What is the bus?
400
PCIe specification allowing one to put a shorter PCIe card into a larger slot
What is Unplugging?
400
Pin Grid Array
What is PGA?
400
They are chips on the motherboard that handle the infrared connection.
What is The Super I/O?
400
Read Only Memory
What is ROM?
400
The specifications and size of a motherboard or power supply.
What is Form Factor?
500
Specialized expansion slot used solely for video cards.
What is AGP?
500
Land Grid Array
What is LGA?
500
A collection of integrated circuits that form the set needed to make an electronic device such as a computer motherboard or cell phone.
What are Chipsets?
500
Central Processing Unit
What is CPU?
500
Motherboard Form Factor designed to work in standard ATX cases, but with a smaller footprint.