Computer Hardware Terminology

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Across
  1. 1. Clean Room
  2. 4. Fast solid state hard drive using an M.2 connector
  3. 7. 64206 in Hex
  4. 11. Addressing 2 virtual cores
  5. 12. Phonejack-like connector integrated into most motherboards
  6. 13. Dirty Engineer
  7. 14. Very fast but expensive addressable memory on a CPU
  8. 17. Bootstrap code to get a CPU up and running
  9. 18. Volatile system memory module
  10. 19. The main PCB found in personal computers which allows interconnect between the CPU and other ICs/peripherals
  11. 21. New BIOS
  12. 22. A serial bus standard that is used to connect most modern peripherals to a computer
  13. 23. Computer brain
  14. 24. Southbridge integrated with SuperIO
  15. 25. A disk drive that uses memory chips instead of rotating platters for data storage
  16. 27. A digital interface used for transmitting audio and video in a single cable
Down
  1. 2. Company that wrote the operating system for the IBM 5150
  2. 3. 1011111010101101 in Hex
  3. 4. Memory and AGP video controller
  4. 5. 1000000MB
  5. 6. The E in FDEW
  6. 8. Name of an expansion slot for modern computers
  7. 9. Uses a moving arm to store data magnetically
  8. 10. An analog video port coming out on a 15 pin D-sub connector on the back of a computer
  9. 14. Instruction register and program counter
  10. 15. A component that supplies multiple voltage rails to the motherboard
  11. 16. Measures the rotational speed of a spindle HDD
  12. 17. 8 bits
  13. 20. A unit of frequency and is defined as the number of complete cycles per second
  14. 24. Stores system parameters read at startup
  15. 26. A type of computer memory which transfers data quickly and it sends and receives data twice per clock cycle