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Year 10 Computing Flashcards on CPU, created by Oliver Bonnar on 12/10/2017.
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Identify as many ways as you can to increase the performance of your CPU 1) Increasing the amount of cores 2) Upgrading the RAM 3) Install an SSD startup drive 4) Overclocking
What is an ALU Arithmetic logic unit
What does CPU stand for Central processing unit
What is a microprocessor An integrated circuit that contains all the information of a central processing unit of a computer
What's the difference between RAM and ROM Random access memory is volatile Read only memory is non-volatile
What was ROM used for before Flash Storing the BIOS
Name 3 different types of secondary storage 1) Optical 2) Magnetic 3) Solid state
What does F.D.E stand for Fetch, Decode, Execute
The fastest type of memory is Registers
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