CHAPTER 4 The Components of the System 5. 课件.pptVIP

CHAPTER 4 The Components of the System Unit Expansion Slots and Adapter Cards 000-209 Intro to CS. 5/Mother 2 The system clock sends out ticks to control the timing of all the motherboard tasks e.g. it controls the speed of the data bus and the instruction cycle The time it takes to complete an instruction cycle is measured in megahertz (MHz). 1 MHz = one million cycles per second The System Clock 000-209 Intro to CS. 5/Mother 3 Word size: the number of bytes the CPU can process at once. depends on the number of registers in the CPU; depends on the size of the data bus Cache size: the cache