CP102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Central Processing Unit, Ultrabook, Memory Card
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Chapter 6 understanding and assessing hardware: evaluating your. Moore"s law: a prediction states that the number of transistors on a central processing unit chip will double every two years. System evaluation: the process of looking at a computer"s subsystems, what they do, and how they perform to determine whether the computer system has the right hardware components to do what the user ultimately wants it to do. The cpu is located on the system motherboard and is responsible for processing instructions, performing calculations, and managing the flow of information through your computer. System properties will show you the type of cpu you have installed. The control unit: coordinates the activities of all the other computer components. The arithmetic logic unit (alu): performing all the arithmetic calculation, also makes logic and comparison decisions. A cpu"s processing power is determined by the following: Clock speed: dictates how many instructions the cpu can process each second.
