Exam 4: Microprocessors

What are some factors that can cause CPU overheating?

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

How does pipelining increase the efficiency of the CPU without increasing the clock speed?

A(n) _______________ CPU has two execution units-two sets of pipelines-but the two sets of pipelines share caches and RAM

The temporary storage areas (worktables) of a CPU are called _______________.

List the three different types of cache included with most newer CPUs.

Almost all current CPUs have a(n) _______________, moved from the motherboard chip into the CPU to optimize the flow of information into and out of the CPU.

What is clock speed?

Which cache on the CPU is used first?

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

The video processing portion of the computer traditionally has a discrete microprocessor unique to video capabilities, known as the _______________.

What drove 64-bit processing to be developed?

What can too much heat dope (thermal paste) do to the CPU?

Not enough thermal paste or thermal paste spread unevenly can cause the CPU to _______________ up and consequently shut itself down.

The communication device of the CPU is called the _______________.

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

What technique is used by the motherboard to go back to CMOS defaults?

Three things to consider when installing a CPU are _______________ type, cooling, and performance.

RAM size is measured in _______________.

One billion cycles per second is equivalent to _______________.