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a type of form factor
onboard ports and connectors |
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Balanced Technology Extended
Form factor (Intel) |
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| shape size and design of a motherboard |
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| data moves in a line one after another |
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| data transferred in waves or bytes |
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| the amount of dat delivered in one time unit |
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| The amount of time data take to tranfer |
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| traces (wires) on the ciruit board that transmit data |
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| parallel interface that connects CPU to RAM |
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| transfers data from in/outputs |
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| gets the attention of a CPU |
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| DMA (direct Memory Access |
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| Allows data to be transferred from a component directly to system memory (no intervention from CPU |
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| Allows newly-installed devices to configure system resources |
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| PCI Peripheral component interconnect |
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| (Intel) Allows the user to customize the system by connecting sound cards |
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| send more than one signal over a single pin |
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| AGP Accelerated Graphics Port |
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| IDE intelligent drive electronics |
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| Connects to CD, DVD drives (40pin) |
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| SCSI Small computer system interface |
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| parallel inerface connects to printers scanners, HDD, and CD drives |
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| used to connect the mouse and the keyboard |
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| USB universal serial bus (connector) |
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| connects mouses, scanners, ext. |
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collection of intelligent controller chips on the motherboard.
CONTROLS THE TYPE AND SPEED OF CPUs THAT THE MOTHERBOARD WILL ACCEPT |
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| The physical transport and command protocls for the internal attachment |
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| instructions on the EEPROM chip |
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