Exam 5: All About Motherboards

Throughput is sometimes called ____.

Later sockets used a ____,with pins staggered over the socket to squeeze more pins into a small space.

The most reliable way to restore settings is to keep a written record of all the changes you make to ____.

The ____ and the chipset determine which processors a board can support.

Most likely when you first install a hard drive or an operating system,you will want to have the BIOS attempt to first boot from a ____.

____ buses have been improved several times; there are currently three major categories and within each category,several variations of the bus.

Discuss the PCI-X.

PCIe is backward compatible

The process of upgrading or refreshing the ROM BIOS chip is called ____ BIOS.

Discuss the high-performance chipsets.