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Flashcards by Shelby Hartsell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Shelby Hartsell
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| Question | Answer |
| Motherboard typical form factors | ATC(Most Common), microATX and ITX |
| Type of expansion buses | PCI Express PCIe and PCI |
| What are the components of a motherboard? | CR2032 battery, expansion bus slots, port cluster, RAM slots, 8pin CPU power (EATX12V), 24-pin ATX connector, Processor socket, x99 chipset, and SATA connectors |
| How many chipsets does a motherboard have? | one or two specific chips (Northbridge/Southbridge) |
| What is northbridge? | a chip in charge of the connection to high data transfer devices |
| What is southbridge? | secondary chip in charge of USB, SATA, Firewire..etc |
| What does DMI stand for? | Direct Media Interface |
| What does DMI do? | carries all the traffic from controllers to the processor |
| What is the data transfer rate of original DMI? | 10 GB/s |
| What is the data transfer rate of DMI 2.0? | 20 GB/s |
| What is QPI? | Quick Path Interconnect. Similar to DMI |
| What is QPI for? | powerful workstations and server motherboards |
| What is Intel's old name for northbridge? | Memory Controller Hub (MCH) |
| How is the MCH connected? | front side bus |
| What is Intel's old name for southbridge? | I/O Controller Hub (ICH) |
| What does SATA stand for? | Serial ATA |
| Where is SATA connected? | Southbridge |
| What does SATA do? | supports connection of hard drives and optical discs |
| What is the rate of SATA 1st gen? | 1.5 GB/s |
| What is the rate of SATA 2nd gen? | 3.0 GB/s |
| What is the rate of SATA 3rd gen? | 6 or 16 GB/s |
| Which generations of SATA are most compatible with today's motherboards? | 2nd and 3rd generation |
| Where does PCIe connect to? | Northbridge |
| What does PCI connect to? | Southbridge |
| Which is faster? PCIe or PIC? | PCIe |
| What is a lane? | where expansion buses send and receive data |
| What is a full duplex lane? | Where a lane can send and receive data simultaneously |
| PCIe version 1 data rate | 2 GB/s per lane |
| PCIe version 2 data rate | 4 GB/s per lane |
| PCIe version 3 data rate | 8 GB/s per lane |
| PCIe version 4 data rate | 16 Gb/s per lane |
| PCIe version 1 frequency | 2.5 GHx |
| PCIe version 2 frequency | 5 GHz |
| PCIe version 3 frequency | 8 GHz |
| PCIe version 4 frequency | 16 GHz |
| PCI frequency version 1 | 33 |
| PCI data transfer rate | 133 |
| How can we tell the number of lanes in a PCIe bus? | xnumber (example: x16) |
| x16 slots are controlled by the ____ | northbridge |
| x1 slots are controlled by ___ | southbridge |
| What is PCI? | allows for connections to modems and video, sound, and network adapters |
| What is PCIe? | Faster than PCI with higher data rates |
| PCI is not only used by devices that fit into PCI slots but ____ | by devices that take the form of an integrated circuit |
| PCI version 2.1 frequency | 66 MHz |
| PCI version 2.1 data transfer rate | 266 MB/s |
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