Vocabulary
Vocabulary
CPU Sockets
sets
PC Components
100
Land Grid Array
What is LGA?
100
This maintains the data entered in the configuration program.
What is CMOS Battery?
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?
200
PCIe specification allowing one to put a shorter PCIe card into a larger slot
What is Unplugging?
200
Pathways that connect the CPU to the memory.
What is Frontside Bus?
200
It's the device that provides electricity to the components.
What is the Motherboard?
200
I/O Controller Hub
What is Southbridge also called?
200
The device that stores files and programs for a long time.
What is Hard Drive?
300
Pathways that connect the CPU to the L2 or L3cache.
What is Backside Bus?
300
The system of pathways on a motherboard over which devices communicate.
What is the bus?
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?
400
Specialized expansion slot used solely for video cards.
What is AGP?
400
The specifications and size of a motherboard or power supply.
What is Form Factor?
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?
500
A component that could operate separately, but is built into another object to become one unit.
What is Integrated?
500
Motherboard Form Factor designed to work in standard ATX cases, but with a smaller footprint.
What is MicroATX?
500
Pin Grid Array
What is PGA
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
CPU
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