PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

(^60) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide The 386SL Intel released the 386SL, which was a 20MHz processor, in 1990. The SL version w ...

Chapter 3: Microprocessors^61 Cyrix 5x86 The Cyrix 5x86, also known as the M1SE, was intended to compete with the Intel 486 with ...

(^62) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide (IDT) Centaur WinChi pC6 includes MMX extensions, has a large L1 cache, and is less expens ...

Chapter 3: Microprocessors^63 Figure 3-14. The Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation Figure 3-15 ...

(^64) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Celeron Developed from use in desktop and portable computers, the Celeron microprocessor, ...

Chapter 3: Microprocessors^65 Figure 3-16. The Intel Celeron microprocessor in the Socket 370 configuration. Photo courtesy of I ...

(^66) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Intel Pentium III The Pentium III processor features 9.5 million transistors, a 32K L1 cac ...

Most motherboards that support a Pentium II processor can be upgraded to a PentiumIII;however,itmayrequireaflashBIOS(seeChapter4 ...

(^68) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide AMD Athlon The honor of having the new powerhouse processor may have moved to AMD with the ...

Chapter 3: Microprocessors^69 Figure 3-23. The Pentium 4 microprocessor. Image courtesy of Intel Corporation ...

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(^72) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide T he motherboard is easily the most important part of the computer. Although there are a n ...

In its basic form, abackplanemainboard contains very little in the way of intelli- gence andstorage capabilities. It is merely a ...

(^74) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide The IBM PC XT The successor to the IBM PC was the IBM PC XT (Extended Technology). The mot ...

Chapter 4: Motherboards^75 The IBM PC AT IBM next introduced its 16-bit PC AT (Advanced Technology) that included enough additio ...

(^76) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Micro-AT Form Factor Further high-scale integration of processor chipsets and supporting c ...

Chapter 4: Motherboards^77 that rotates the motherboard’s orientation by 90 degrees and incorporates a new set of mounting locat ...

(^78) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide port,andablankslotthatcouldbeusedforasecondparallelport.Thebottomrowincludes a second PS/2 ...

Chapter 4: Motherboards^79 TheATXdesign(seeFigure4-4)alsoincorporatesanumberoffeaturesintothepower supply. The power on and off ...