Grade 9 computer

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

More information about computer parts

Buses It is like a big city of connections. Instead of streets, it has tiny electrical paths to connect certain components of the computer. These connections are called busses.
FactsThe more busses to a component, the faster it can operate.Larger busses work faster than the smaller one.
FSBThe motherboard also has a freeway, which is called a front side bus(FSB) which is the most important on a computer because it connects the computer to the main memory and NorthBridge chipset. The faster the FSB the faster the computer, so in other words, FSB is a computers speed. Older mother boards had FSB speeds of 33MHZ and below. Now , most FSB s have speeds of over 1000MHZ.
ChipsetLike the traffic police in real life, the chipset(2 chips on a motherboard). It controls , manages and directs all the data flow between the components.
BIOS (basic input output device)The BIOS is where the computers settings are stored, and it is run by a battery within the computer. It instructs the computer to do things like launching the windows. The BIOS settings can be changed by going into the computers setup by which is different for different computers, the keys are usually F11 or delete which can be pressed right after the computer is turned on.
Motherboard Expansion SlotsThese are slots located on the motherboard, which are used to connect video cards, sound cards etc.They are of different types:
ISA-Industrial Standard ArchitectureISA slots are made by Promise and called I/O Max. It has an additional set of serial ports, an additional parallel port, and another IDE connector al on the same card but they are reasonably old and are not used too much anymore.

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