Chapter 3: CPUs

What type of RAM is used for main system memory?  

Intel's Pentium and Celeron series of CPUs are intended for which target market?  

A sudden CPU shutdown usually indicates what condition?  

What type of socket package do AMD chips use?  

Newer CPUs process instructions and commands in what type of execution?  

What is the practical limit for modern CPU clock speeds?  

What is the biggest and slowest cache?  

What type of socket does not require any force when installing the processor with the socket?  

How many bits make up a byte?  

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What type of socket is used to hold a CPU in place?  

CPUs typically run at some factor of the clock speed. What makes this possible?  

What performance enhancement is accomplished through jumpers, CMOS settings, or software configuration?  

Which cache on the CPU is used first?  

Which technology effectively turns the CPU into two CPUs on one chip?  

What kind of RAM comprises cache?  

Which type of processor is sometimes integrated with the CPU to handle certain tasks more efficiently, such as video

Which component stores the data that the CPU actively uses?  

What is applied to the CPU before attaching the heat-sink/fan assembly?  

What chip, in modern CPUs, optimizes the flow of information into and out of the CPU?  

One billion cycles per second is equivalent to _______________.  

What typically connects a CPU to RAM?  

Because CPU makers cannot make the processors run much quicker, they instead _______________.  

What newer technology automatically configures CPU multipliers and speeds?  

Which CPU is targeted at the mobile device platform?  

What cache was historically on the motherboard, but now often comes on the CPU?  

In _______________, the cores in multicore CPUs to divide up work independently of the OS.  

Which type of socket package do Intel processors use?  

All of the machine language commands that the CPU understands make up its _______________.  

What is an important difference between desktops and mobile devices in terms of CPU needs?  

Which component requires a constant electrical charge and a periodic refresh of the circuits?  

One megabyte is equivalent to _______________ bytes.  

What technology requires that the OS and applications be written specifically to handle multiple threads?  

What type of RAM is used in the CPU's cache?  

Four bits make up a _______________.  

Which technology allows a computer to run more than one operating system at a time?  

What term defines the first cache that the CPU uses?  

How much RAM can 32-bit processors access?  

What are the four stages of the pipelining process?  

What is equivalent to 1024 bytes?  

today's computers, the CPU tells ____ the clock speed it needs, and the clock chip then automatically adjust for the CPU

How much RAM can a 64-bit processor theoretically access?