GPU, Storage and the Motherboard lesson 3 starter 4

Which has more cores: CPU or GPU?

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Answer explanation

CPU's have on average 4 to 8 cores. The 4090 has 18,432 cores

How does a PC GPU connect to the motherboard?

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Answer explanation

PCI Express is the de facto expansion card connector standard for modern motherboards and is known for offering fairly high bandwidth and speeds.

What does rendering mean?

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Answer explanation

Rendering is the finalization process of a digital image or a 3D model using computer software. It lets users bring together the visuals, from the shadows and lighting effects to the textures, and generate the final result.

What is a computer´s main internal backing storage?

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Answer explanation

Capacity and speed. Both HDD's and SDD's have much larger capacity and faster speeds than the other options. SSD's are beginning to replace HDD's

What would be the best measurement to use for the capacity of a hard disk

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Answer explanation

The same reason that distance is measured in feet (or meters) and liquids are measured in gallons. Gigabytes (GB) is the name of a specific size of data storage that can be used to measure what a hard drive can hold. Just like you would measure a water jug in gallons, you measure data storage in GBs.

Which of the following is the correct order of storage size from the smallest to the largest?

• CD

• USB drive

• Floppy disk

• Blu-ray

• Hard drive

Which feature of the motherboard controls all connected devices?

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Which part of the motherboard manages the speed of the system?

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Which parts of the motherboard move data around the system?

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What is the 8 bit binary equivalent of the decimal number 7?

• 00000111

• 10001100

• 01111111

• 00000101