International Academy of Design & Technology

IT IT110

Chapter 5

REVIEWING THE BASICS

1)If a motherboard has a slot 1, what processor(s) is it designed to support?

2. What was the first Intel processor to contain external cache?

3.  When is it appropriate to use a Celeron rather than a Pentium 4 in a computer system?

4. Which is more powerful, the current Celeron or the current Xeon processor?

5. Who is the major competitor of Intel in the processor market?

6. Why did the competitors of the Intel Pentium II choose to stay with Socket 7 rather than use slot 1 for their competing processors?

7. What components inside a computer case keep a processor cool?

8. Describe the difference between a PGA socket and an SPGA socket.

9. Name a processor that requires dual voltage. How are the two voltages used?

10. Name a processor that uses Socket A..

11. What are the four speeds of the most popular motherboards currently available on the market that support Intel processors?

12. Name three manufacturers of motherboard chip sets.

13. Beginning with the Intel i800 chip sets, what are the two main chips of the chip set called?

14. What is the name for the bus that connects L2 cache to the processor inside the Pentium II processor housing?

15. What is the word size of the Pentium family of processors?

16. What is the data path size of the Front Side Bus of the Pentium family of processors?

17. If a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition uses two ALU units inside the processor housing, how many ALU units does the Pentium D have?

18. Why is a land socket preferred to a pin socket?

19. Explain the difference between the locations of discrete L2 cache and Advanced Transfer Cache.
20. Which instruction set is used by the Itanium processors?

21. Which group of Intel processors uses a 32-bit word size and a 64-bit word size?

22. Which Windows personal computing operating system(s) support Intel Hyper-Threading Technology?

23. Name an AMD processor that uses dual-core processing.

24. What processor manufacturer once targeted the desktop processor market, but is now more focused on processors used for personal electronics?

25. What is the latest socket used by Intel desktop processors?

THINKING CRITICALLY

1. When overclocking a system, what two problems are most likely to occur?

1. 1. “Low memory” errors
   2. An unstable system that causes intermittent errors
   3. Loss of hard drive space used by the overclocking virtual memory file
   4. Overheating

2. What must software developers do to take advantage of a 64-bit processor such as the Itanium?
3. You upgrade a Windows 98 system by upgrading a Pentium 4 processor to a Pentium4 Extreme Edition with HT. Now users complain to you that Windows hangs a lot and gives errors. What do you do first?
   1. Reinstall Windows 98.

1. 2. Upgrade Windows 98 to Windows XP.