Motherboards, CPUs and Memory

 
  1. Go to my favorite web site, www.frys.com and do a search for Motherboard. At the top of your results page you will see three categories. Look at the last two terms of the bottom two categories, what are these terms?_________________________________
  2. Click on the second category which will display motherboards for Intel processors. On the left hand side of the page you will see another list of categories. The first term is the name of the Intel processor and the second value is the socket type. The socket is what holds the processor on the motherboard. Copy down three of these categories.___________________
  3. Click on the back button to return to the page that listed all three categories and click on the last link which will display AMD motherboards. Once again copy down three categories shown on the left hand side of the page. _____________________________
  4. Take a look at the Asus M4A89TD Pro motherboard. Scroll down the page to the detailed description. What type of socket does this motherboard have?
  5. What processors will this motherboard support?
  6. How many DIMMs does the motherboard support?
  7. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. List as many of the ports shown that you can identify.
  8. Look at the Intel CPU add to answer these next questions. How many cores does the Intel Core i5 750 have?_________________
  9. What is the clock speed of this processor?_______________________
  10. What type of memory does this CPU support?___________________