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integrated circuit.
Chip set -- The logic devices on the motherboard that connects the microprocessor and other board functions.
Clock -- A circuit that sends a consistent, periodic signal that is used to step logic information through a computer circuit.
CMOS RAM
-- Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. CMOS RAM stores basic configuration information about your computer.
Colour display -- A video display capable of displaying colours based on the RGB (Red, Green, and Blue) colour-mixing scheme.
Configuration -- The way in which a computer and peripheral equipment (such as printers and display monitors) are interconnected
and programmed to operate as a system.
Default -- The initial setting when the system left the factory.
Digital monitor -- A type of monitor in which display colour is controlled by digital colour control lines that switch on and off ; the
number of colours that can be displayed depends on the selected display mode.
DIMM -- Dual In-Line Memory Module. RAM chips installed on a small circuit board module, having a single row of connectors (240
pins) on the bottom of the module where it is plugged into the main system board.
DisplayPort -- A digital display interface standard put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) since 2006. It
defines a new royalty-free, digital audio/video interconnect, intended to be used primarily between a computer and its display
monitor, or a computer and a home-theater system.
DMA (Direct Memory Address) -- A method for transferring data directly to and from system memory, bypassing the microprocessor.
DVI-D and DVI-I -- (Digital Visual Interface- integrated) is the connection, or interface used between monitors and computers or
home theatre systems. DVI-I is used to interface with an LCD monitor display for digital video output. DVI-I supports both digital and
analog. However, it will not use both at the same time. DVI-I detects and chooses digital or analog depending on the connected
display. Contrast with DVI-D, which is a digital-only interface and DVI-A which is an analog-only interface.
Driver -- A utility program accompanying the motherboard that permits application programs to use the extended resolutions of the
VGA circuitry.
Expansion slot -- A connector on the motherboard for holding an adapter card.
Gigahertz (GHz) -- A frequency of 1 billion cycles per second.
Hertz (Hz) -- A unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second.
Horizontal frequency -- The rate, at which monitor displays each scan line, usually measured in kilohertz (kHz).
I/O -- An abbreviation for "input/output", a generic term that refers to the devices and processes involved in the computer's reading
and writing data.
Integrated circuit
-- An electronic device that combines thousands of transistors on a small chip of silicon. Such devices are the
building blocks of computers.
Interleaving -- A technique for improving the performance of system memory by splitting the memory into two or four sections that
alternately process information. While one memory section goes through a refresh cycle, the microprocessor sends information to
another section for processing.