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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) | In computing, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification provides an open standard for device configuration and power management by the operating system. |
| back-side bus (BSB) | In personal computer microprocessor architecture, a back-side bus (BSB), or backside bus, is a computer bus used to connect the CPU to CPU cache memory, usually L2. |
| case fan | A computer fan is any fan inside, or attached to, a computer case used for active cooling, and may refer to fans that draw cooler air into the case from the outside, expel warm air from inside, or move air across a heatsink to cool a particular component. |
| Centrino | The Centrino brand represents Intel Wi-Fi and WiMAX adapters. It was formerly a platform-marketing initiative from Intel until January 7, 2010. |
| chassis air guide (CAG) | Chassis Air Guide or CAG in abbreviation, is Intel's thermal system to PC chassis. |
| Cool’n’Quiet | Cool'n'Quiet is a CPU speed throttling and power saving technology introduced by AMD with its Athlon 64 processor line. |
| Cooler | Computer fans are very widely used to reduce temperature by actively exhausting hot air. There are also more exotic and extreme techniques, such as liquid cooling. |
| DRAM | Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is a type of random-access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. |
| dual-core processing | A multi-core processor is a single computing component with two or more independent actual central processing units (called "cores"), which are the units that read and execute program instructions. |
| Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST) | SpeedStep is a trademark for a series of dynamic frequency scaling technologies and including built into some Intel microprocessors that allow the clock speed of the processor to be dynamically changed by software aka EIST. |
| Execute disable bit | The NX bit, which stands for Never eXecute, is a technology used in CPUs to segregate areas of memory for use by either storage of processor instructions (or code) or for storage of data, a feature normally only found in Harvard architecture processors. |
| front-side bus (FSB) | A front-side bus (FSB) is a computer communication interface (bus) often used in Intel-chip-based computers during the 1990s and 2000s. |
| heat sink | In electronic systems, a heat sink is a passive heat exchanger component that cools a device by dissipating heat into the surrounding air. In computers, heat sinks are used to cool central processing units or graphics processors. |
| hyper-threading | Hyper-threading is Intel's proprietary simultaneous multithreading (SMT) implementation used to improve parallelization of computations performed on PC microprocessors. |
| hyper transport | HyperTransport (HT), formerly known as Lightning Data Transport (LDT), is a technology for interconnection of computer processors |
| internal bus | Internal bus, also known as internal data bus, memory bus or system bus or front-Side-Bus, connects all the internal components of a computer, such as CPU and memory, to the motherboard. |
| Level 1 (L1) cache | Multi-level caches generally operate by checking the smallest level 1 (L1) cache first; if it hits, the processor proceeds at high speed |
| Level 2 (L2) cache | If the smaller cache misses, the next larger cache (L2) is checked, and so on, before external memory is checked |
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