Thursday, September 4, 2008

Assignment: Reading a Technical Ad for a Computer System

The answers to Real Problems/Real Solutions are:
  1. The system bus in the ad is called FSB for front side bus.
  2. I think P4 means Pentium 4
  3. The four choices of frequencies for the processor are:2.66 Ghz, 2.93 Ghz, 3.06 Ghz and 3.2 Ghz.
  4. The brand of the processor is an Intel
  5. the RAM on the motherboard is 512 MB and it is $50 to double it.
  6. A PCI express port is used for the video card
  7. The terms to describe the hard drive in the system are 80GB, SATA ATA150, 8M buffer, 7200 RPM, ATA 100 UIDE HDD.
  8. The terms I don't understand are Hyper Threading, 1.44 FDD and 10-100 network.

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