Monday, 17 March 2014

Processors

Please make notes on the CPU watch videos below and answer questions on your blogs?  Use all resources you can?

















  1. What is the purpose of the CPU?
  2. What are the major difference between Mobile and Desktop CPUs?
  3. What is a clock cycle and why is it important?
  4. Why is locality important when dealing with cache?
  5. Explain the purpose of Level 2 Cache (L2)?
  6. What is the latest development in Caching?
  7. What does VGA Mean?
  8. Why do most modern computer not have a CPU?  What do they have instead?
  9. What does Mulpitple Core actually mean?
  10. Describe what an Arithmetic Logic Unit and a Control Unit are?
  11. What is the purpose of the Motherboard?
  12. What is a CPU Heatsink where is it and how does it work?
  13. What is the motherboard responsible for?
  14. What is Bus Speed and why is it important?
  15. How does RAM, ROM, I/O and Storage link to the processor?
  16. What is the Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle?

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