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Expansion Slots
Motherboards
Chips
Memory
Potpourri
100

Slots often labeled DDR-x, and are colored indicating matched pairs?

What are RAM Expansion Slots?

100

This is the most common desktop motherboard form.

What is ATX?

100
The brain of the computer.
What is the CPU?
100

This is what RAM stands for.

What is Random Access Memory?

100

This is the device that allows a PC to 'remember' the date, time and other settings while the power is off.

What is CMOS battery?

200

PCIe is short for this.

What is PCI Express?

200

This is a smaller version of the ATX motherboard.

What is MicroATX?

200

The type of CPU that has pins which insert into the CPU socket.

What is a PGA CPU?

(Pin Grid Array)

200

This is what DDR stands for.

What is Double Data Rate?

200

These are the multicolored pin sockets on a motherboard that connect to the front panel of the PC case.

What are FPC or Front Panel Connectors?

300

This is an expansion slot that preceded PCIe and supports legacy expansion cards.

What is PCI?

300

This is a miniature/small/compact series of motherboards designed for mobile devices?

What is ITX?

300

What is assists the CPU in working with memory, expansion cards, and onboard peripherals.

This is what a Chipset does.

(Northbridge and Southbride are components of a Chipset)

300

This is what SIMM stands for.

What is Single In-line Memory Module?

300

This is the number of PINS in an ATX power supply connection to the motherboard.

What is 20+4?

400

White 3 or 4 pin connectors on a motherboard.

What are fan connectors?

400

Standard mounting points and similar layout.

ATX and microATX motherboards have this in common.

400
The chip that helps the processor interpret data going from RAM to the CPU.
What is the Northbridge chip?
400
Type of RAM that requires all slots to be filled.
What is RIMM or Rambus In-line Memory Module
400

This is what the term LEGACY actually means.

What is OLD?

500

Hard drive interface connections in modern computers are called this.

What is SATA?

500

This is the most important component of a computer that contains all the pathways to connect the CPU to memory and expansion boards.

What is the motherboard/mainboard?

500

These are the two major manufacturers of CPUs.

What are Intel and AMD?

500

This is a type of RAM designed for laptops, and mobile devices.

What is SO-DIMM?

500

This is the first software run when your computer boots, before passing off to the Operating System.

What is the BIOS or UEFI?