Real Problems, Real Solutions 1-8

1. What is the system bus called? What two system bus frequencies are offered?
The system bus is call the Front Side Bus or FSB. The two frequencies that are offered are
533 Mhz or 800 Mhz.

2. In the ad, what do you think P4 means?
P4 stands for the Intel Pentium 4 Central Processing Unit or CPU.

3. What are the four choices of frequencies for the processor?
The four choices of frequencies for the processor are, 2.66Ghz, 2.93Ghz, 3.0Ghz, or 3.2Ghz.

4. What is the brand of the processor?
The brand of the processor is Intel.

5. How much RAM is on the motherboard? What is the cost of doubling that amount of RAM?
There is 512MB of RAM on the motherboard. It would cost fifty dollars to double the
amount of RAM.

6. What type of expansion slot is used for the video card?
The type of expansion slot that is used for the video card is a PCI Express port.

7. What terms describe the hard drive in the system?
The terms that describe the hard drive in the system are 80GB SATA ATA 150 8M buffer
7200 rpm ATA100 UIDE HDD.

8. List the terms in the ad that you do not understand (many are not covered in this chapter)
and save the list. You will need it in future chapters.
The terms in the ad that I did not understand are Hyper Threading, ATX MB, NERO,
10-100 Network, gigabit Ian, RAID, PCI-X MB.