CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Flash Memory, Hyper-Threading, Standard Raid Levels

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Moore"s law: cpu capacity and speed will double every two years: once your computer is two years old, it is already obsolete. System evaluation: a process to determine whether or not your current system is good enough. Video cards have their own built-in memory modules. Video cards take up a lot of memory. Displayport adapters: video cards come with their own cpu, monitor, three kinds: crt, led, lcd, graphics processing unit (gpu): a separate processing chip specialized to handle 3d graphics and image and video processing with incredible efficiency and speed. Evaluating the audio system: consists of speakers and a sound card (attached to the motherboard, most sound cards are 3d which convinces the human ear that sound is. Omni-directional: many sound systems will allow you to connect many speakers to achieve surround-sound, you will need a set of surround-sound speakers and a sound card that is. Dolby 7. 1 (7 speakers, 1 subwoofer, 8 total) compatible.