CPU's and Power Supplies

Which of the following is a serial ATA power connector?

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Which of the following is a derived quantity that you can calculate by multiplying the force of electricity caused by a difference in charge at two locations an the measure of the flow of electrons past a given point?

Electrical Power

You open your PC and look at the CPU. How can you tell if it uses active or passive cooling?

If there is just a heat sink on the CPU then it uses passive cooling. If there is a fan attached to the CPU it uses active cooling

Which cooling system relies on small tubes filled with a small amount of fluid?

Heat Pipes

Which color is typically connected to ground?

Black

Which cooling system uses an electronic component that gets colder when voltage is applied?

Peltier coolers

Which is the formula relating voltage, current, and resistance?

V= I xR

The power requirements of a motherboard are estimated to be which of the following?

30 watts

Which is not a component of a CPU? A.Bus Architecture B.Control Unit C.Execution Unit component? D.Register

A.Bus Architecture

Which of the following components requires the most power?

CPU

What are insulators of electricity?

Ceramics,Gases,Plastics

Which of the following is measured in amps?

Current

A single-core processor has one of what?

Execution Unit

CPU's of the same class are interchangeable. For example, you can replace any Pentium 4 CPU on a motherboard with any other Pentium 4-class CPU. True or False

False

The math coprocessor was the predecessor to which CPU component?

Floating Point Unit, FPU

Which package type has no pins, but uses small raised contacts instead?

LGA

Which processor caching level is the fastest for accessing data?

Level 1

What are conductors of electricity?

Liquids, Metals

Which of the following performance features can overheat the processor?

Overclocking

_________are very small, very fast, memory locations for holding instructions or units of data.

Registers

Which of the following is a force that opposes the flow of DC through a conductor?

Resistance

Which of the following are measured in ohms?

Resistance, Impedance (droppage of voltage)

Before the Pentium CPU was introduced, what was the most common CPU cooling mechanism?

Simple Fan

At a given voltage, current increases as resistance drops. True or False

True

Most current processors have both L1 and L2 caches.

True

Thermal compound is basically a grease-like fluid used between the CPU and it's heat sink or cooling fins. True or False

True