BTM 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Surround Sound, Ddr3 Sdram, Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: Rafaat Saade

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Moore"s law: predicts rate at which cpus improve. The cpu or processor is the brains of the computer. It processes instructions, performs calculations, manages the flow of information through the computer system, and is responsible for processing the data you input into information. Core: a complete processing section from a cpu embedded into the same physical chip. Clock speed: how quickly the processor works. Cache: the amount of immediate access memory the cpu. Front side bus: connects the processor to system memory has. Random access memory (ram) is your computer"s temporary storage space. Memory modules (or memory cards), the small circuit boards that hold a series of ram chips, fit into special slots on the motherboard: most memory modules in today"s systems are called dual inline memory modules (dimms). Several types of ram are available: ddr2, ddr3, sram, dram, sdram. The amount of ram actually sitting on memory modules in your computer is your computer"s physical memory.