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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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Centrino   The Centrino brand represents Intel Wi-Fi and WiMAX adapters. It was formerly a platform-marketing initiative from Intel until January 7, 2010.  
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chassis air guide (CAG)   Chassis Air Guide or CAG in abbreviation, is Intel's thermal system to PC chassis.  
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Cool’n’Quiet   Cool'n'Quiet is a CPU speed throttling and power saving technology introduced by AMD with its Athlon 64 processor line.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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hyper-threading   Hyper-threading is Intel's proprietary simultaneous multithreading (SMT) implementation used to improve parallelization of computations performed on PC microprocessors.  
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hyper transport   HyperTransport (HT), formerly known as Lightning Data Transport (LDT), is a technology for interconnection of computer processors  
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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.  
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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  
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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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