Thursday, August 23, 2007

IDE Connector
-Most motherboards have two IDE connectors, which allow two drives to be attached to each connector. One drive is set to master and the other drive is set to slave by using a jumper that is normally located on the back of the drive. This allows a total of four IDE devices, (or drives), to be attached to a typical computer.

Processor Socket
- widely used to describe the connector linking the motherboard to the CPU(s) in certain types of desktop and server computers, particularly those compatible with the Intel x86 architecture.

AGP
-(also called Advanced Graphics Port, often shortened to AGP) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a graphics card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

PCI
-is a computer expansion card interface format. It was designed to replace CI, PCI-X (interface card interface) and AGP (graphics card interface). PCIe is based around serial links called lanes.

SATA
-is a computer bus primarily designed for transfer of data between a computer and storage devices (like hard disks or optical drives).

South Bridge
-The south bridge is often referred to as the I/O controller. The features of the south bridge change less often than the those of the north bridge. From chipset to chipset, nearly all south bridges have support for integrated sound, LAN and modem, ATA and USB.

Memory
-Memory refer to computer components, devices and recording media that retain digital data used for computing for some interval of time. Computer storage provides one of the core functions of the modern computer, that of information

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