power fluctuation terms/protectors
a complete loss of AC/DC power
what is a blackout?
when a fan is used to cool the pc/CPU
what is active cooling?
RAID uses this storage medium
what is a HDD/solid state drive?
what is VGA?
the screen of a computer
what is a monitor?
when the AC/DC power drops below 80% for an extended period of time
what is a blackout?
when a heat sink is used to cool a pc/CPU
what is passive cooling
this RAID type duplicates the storage onto multiple storage devices (this is a lot safer but you wont have that much storage)
what is mirroring?
a type of USB usually used on phones, but is becoming less common
what is micro-USB?
the standard RAM sizes (in GB)
this device helps against surges and spikes
what is a surge protector
when only one core is inside a CPU
what is a single core CPU?
the acronym for RAID
what is: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks?
a video port that is capable of both video and audio and has 19 pins
what is HDMI
the person who founded Microsoft
who is Bill Gates?
a dramatic increase of AC/DC power over a short period of time
what is a spike?
when you set your CPU to run faster than was originally intended
what is overclocking?
this RAID type equally distributes storage between multiple storage devices, but if one device fails all data on that device will be lost
what is striping?
a charging port found on most modern phones
what is USB type-C?
the year the first computer was made
what is 1943?
this device supplies a constant flow of electricity so you don't have to worry about power fluctuating
what is an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
when six cores are in a CPU
what is a Hexa-core CPU
this RAID type provides protection to up to two drives
what is double parity?
a display port designed to replace DVI and VGA on computers
what is Displayport?
the average number of keys on a keyboard
what is 104?