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ATX
Advanced Technology eXtended
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What are the three main form factors?
- 1. ATX
- 2. MicroATX
- 3. Mini-ITX
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How many pins are on the power connectors ?
20 or 24
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PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
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What is the PCI and what is it's speed range?
It is the legacy PCI slot and its speed range from 133 MB/s to 533 MB/s
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What was the PCI-X designed for and what is it's speed?
- It was designed to work on 64 bit servers.
- Speed is 1,064 MB/s
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What is the Mini PCI and PCIe mini card?
Bus slots used in laptops
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What is the PCIe used for mainly?
High performance devices such as video cards
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What is the speed range for PCIe?
250 MB/s to 2 GB/s
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What two architectures does PCI support? (Sizes of the physical slot)
- 32 bit (Smaller size)
- 64 bit (Bigger size)
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Which 2 bus slots communicated in a parallel format?
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How does PCIe communicate ? Serial or parallel?
Serial
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How many lane types are there for PCIe?
x1,x2,x4,x8,x16,x32
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What does the x stand for?
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What are the throughput for each version of PCIe? (4)
- v1 - 250 MB/s
- v2 - 500 MB/s
- v3 - 1GB/s
- v4 - 2GB/s
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DIMM
Dual Inline Memory Module
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SO-DIMM
Small Outline DIMM
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DIMM SRAM has how many pins?
168 pins
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DIMM DDR1 has how many pins?
184 pins
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DIMM DDR2, DDR3 has how many pins?
240 pins
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SO-DIMM Is used in what?
Laptops and Mobile Devices
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SO-DIMM DDR, DDR2 has how many pins?
200 pins
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SO-DIMM DDR3 has how many pins?
204 pins
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Micro-DIMM DDR has how many pins?
172 pins
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Micro-DIMM DDR2, DDR3 has how many pins?
214 pins
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What is the data width for the DIMM?
64 bit
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What is the SO-DIMM used for?
Laptops and mobile devices
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Micro dimm is used for what?
Mobile devices
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What is ZIF?
It is a socket type for CPUs with pins (PGA)
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Difference between PGA and LGA?
The LGA socket has the pins and PGA has the holes
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What is the AKA for the northbridge?
Memory Controller Hub
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What is the AKA for the southbridge?
I/O Controller Hub
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What does the northbridge do?
It is in charge of the connections for all high data transfer devices such as video cards and RAM. Also manages the connection between the CPU and memory
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What does the southbridge do?
it is in charge of all secondary controllers such as USB, Ethernet, SATA, BIOS.. Low data controllers
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What 3 functions have moved onto the CPU?
- 1. GPU
- 2. Northbridge
- 3. Cores
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