Microprocessors

Question 1

What does CPU stand for and what does it do?

Answer 1

Central processing unit, processes all of the input data output, essentially the brain of the computer

Question 2

When describing CPU what nomenclature should you use?

Answer 2

Make and model. Make: Intel model: i73820

Question 3

What defines the difference between CPUs

Answer 3

The microarchitecture.

Question 4

What is one hertz?

Answer 4

One cycle per second

Question 5

What makes the CPU go?

Answer 5

The system crystal that oscillates at a certain speed on the motherboard. A.k.a. motherboard speed

Question 6

If the system Crystal can only oscillate at a certain speed how does the CPU go faster?

Answer 6

There is a clock multiplier inside the CPU.

Question 7

What is the CPU speed calculated in?

Answer 7

Hertz

Question 8

So how is final CPU speed determined?

Answer 8

Speed of the motherboard and the clock multiplier

Question 9

What is a multicore processor?

Answer 9

They include more than one CPU on a single physical chip

Question 10

What is hyper threading?

Answer 10

The ability to make 1 core look like 2, only for Intel.

Question 11

What is a cache?

Answer 11

Very fast temporary storage on a cpu. It helps with the overall speed of the computer.

Question 12

What is the benefit of small cache?

Answer 12

It’s faster

Question 13

What is the benefit of bigger cache?

Answer 13

It can hold more data.

Question 14

What is the level one cache?

Answer 14

The cache that is physically closest to the CPU. Generally smaller and faster.

Question 15

What is the difference between a level one and level two cache?

Answer 15

Level two is bigger and slower usually half the speed of level one.

Question 16

What is the difference in 32-bit and 64-bit processors?

Answer 16

64-bit can handle more ram

Question 17

What is GPU?

Answer 17

Integrated graphics processing unit. video card that is built into the CPU itself used by Intel.

Question 18

What do the CPU extensions do?

Answer 18

They add functionality to a processor.

Question 19

What is virtualization support?

Answer 19

Enables CPUs to more efficiently run virtualized systems

Question 20

What are the types of CPU sockets?

Answer 20

LGA & PGA

Question 21

What does PGA stand for

Answer 21

Pin grid array socket. Mainly used by AMD

Question 22

What is a zif socket

Answer 22

Zero insertion force

Question 23

What does LGA stand for?

Answer 23

Land grid array, used by Intel

Question 24

What are the characteristics of LGA 775?

Answer 24

775 lands, First mainstream CPU to use LGA, runs with ddr2, started with pentium 4 and lasted through core 2’s.

Question 25

What are the characteristics of LGA 1156?

Answer 25

More mainstream systems, 1156 lands, first socket to have a built in North bridge and ddr3 support, core i3, i5, i7.

Question 26

What are the characteristics of LGA 1366?

Answer 26

For higher end systems, 1366 lands, built in memory controller to talk to ram, could support lots of DDR3, core i7

Question 27

What are characteristics of LGA 1155?

Answer 27

Replaced the 1156, was the first to have full support of onboard graphics. Core i3 i5 i7

Question 28

What are the characteristics of the LGA2011?

Answer 28

Started with DDR3 went to DDR4, supported the first systems to stop using PCI. Only pci express

Question 29

What are the characteristics of LGA 1150

Answer 29

Sports multiple CPUs, started with DDR3 and supports DDR four and supports lots of PCI E devices

Question 30

What are the characteristics of the AMD socket AM2?

Answer 30

Has 940 pins, Supported DDR2, hyper transport capability

Question 31

What are the characteristics of the AM3 socket?

Answer 31

941 pins, supported Avalon 2, phenom 2 and ddr3.

Question 31

What are the characteristics of AM3+?

Answer 31

942 pins Supported Avalon 2 phenom 2 ddr3.

Question 32

What is APU?

Answer 32

Accelerated processing unit, AMD version of GPU.

Question 33

What are the characteristics of AMD FM1?

Answer 33

First socket to support APU, 905 pins.

Question 34

What are the characteristics of FM2?

Answer 34

904 pins, power and speed improvements to the FM1.

Question 35

What are the characteristics of FM2+?

Answer 35

906 pins more pci express support.