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L.E.D.
Light Emitting Diode - a light which indicates activity - for example hard disk access.
PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)
Developed by Intel, PCI is a local bus standard. A bus is a channel used to transfer data to
(input) and from (output) a computer and to or from a peripheral device. Most PCs have a PCI
bus usually implemented at 32-bits providing a 33 MHz clock speed with a throughput rate of
133 MBps.
NetBurst® micro-architecture (Intel NetBurst® micro-architecture)
The NetBurst® micro-architecture delivers a number of new and innovative features including
Hyper Pipelined Technology, 400 MHz System Bus, Execution Trace Cache, and Rapid
Execution Engine. It also delivers a number of enhanced features, including Advanced Transfer
Cache, Advanced Dynamic Execution, Enhanced Floating Point and Multimedia Unit, and
Streaming SIMD Extensions 2. Intel NetBurst® Microarchitecture provides higher throughput
within the processor and out to memory and I/O for improved headroom.
PCI
Peripheral Component Interface. It became apparent to manufacturers that the 8MHz AT ISA
BUS on the standard PC was just not fast enough for today's applications, and so PCI was
invented. It is a high speed data bus that carries information to and from components - known
as 'Local Bus'.
PCI-X
The 64-bit PCI-X interface (PCI-X 1.0a) can be operated at 133 MHz, (or at 100 MHz and 66
MHz) which achieves a greater than two-fold boost in performance over PCI 2.2 bus
technology. The 133 MHz PCI-X interface achieves up to 1 GB/s throughput, a two-fold
increase over 66 MHz PCI 2.2.
PCI-Express
PCI Express is a 3rd generation I/O architecture where ISA and PCI were respectively the 1st
and 2nd generations. A high-speed, general-purpose serial I/O interconnect, PCI Express will
initially offers speeds of 2.5 Gigabits per second, support multiple widths ("lanes" of data that
range from 1 to 32), and scale to the limits of copper. PCI Express will unify I/O architecture for
desktop, mobile, server, communications platforms, workstations and embedded devices while
also coexisting with PCI and USB connection types
RAM
Random Access Memory - the memory used by the computer for running programs and storing
data.
ROM
Read Only Memory - a memory chip which doesn't lose its data when the system is switched
off. It is used to store the System BIOS and VGA BIOS instructions. It is slower than RAM.
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