Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
The CPU
About CPU
Motherboard
Components Used for
Communication Among
Devices
The Data Bus
System of pathways used for
communication and the protocol and
methods used for transmission
Data Bus
System Clock
Clock Speed
Of motherboard
Measured in megahertz (MHz)
Of CPU
Measured in gigahertz (GHz)
Basic Components of a
CPU
Control unit
Attributes Used to
Rate CPUs
Efficiency/special functionality of
programming code
Multiprocessor ability
The Pentiums
64-bit external path size and two 32bit internal paths (one for each ALU)
Terminology
Bus speed
Processor speed
Multiplier
Memory cache
Memory Cache
Pentium III
Pentium 4
AMD Processors
(continued)
VIA C3 Processor
64-Bit Processors
Intel Itanium
(Intel Pentium 4 6xx series)
The Itanium 2
Processor
SECC
FC-PGA
SECC2
FC-PGA2
SEP
PAC
PPGA
CPGA
PGA
OPGA
OOI/OLGA
PGA
Processors
Socket 7
AMD K6-2,
AMD K6-III,
Intel Pentium MMX
Slot 1
Slot2
Slot A
Socket 370
Socket A
(Socket
462)
Socket 423
Socket 478
CPU Voltage
Requirements
Dual-voltage CPUs
Single-voltage CPUs
Accelerated Hub
Architecture
Replace a CPU?
Cost
Cooling
Performance