Exam 6: Microprocessors

In early computers,the CPU ran at the same speed as which component?

The ____________________ determines the speed at which a CPU and the rest of the PC operate.

What is placed on the external bus to tell the CPU what to do?

Which type of socket package do Intel processors use?

With ____________________,each individual pipeline can run more than one thread at a time.

What kind of RAM is cache typically made of?

What is used in case you need to go back to CMOS defaults?

What is Hyper-Threading?

What is clock speed?

Three things to consider when installing a CPU are ____________________,____________________,and ____________________.

In the binary system,the number ____________________ represents the On state and the number ____________________ represents the Off state.

The four stages of pipelining are __________.

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

What is used to keep CPUs within normal operating temperatures?

Four bits make up a ____.

What is an address bus?

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

What may cause different CPUs to require different types and capacities of RAM?

Because CPU makers can't make the processors run much quicker,they are instead doing what?

RAM is measured in __________________.