Socket 370 (Socket for Intel Pentium III and Celeron CPUs)

Socket A (Socket for AMD Athlon and Duron CPUs)

Slot 1 (Slot for large Intel Pentium II and early Pentium III vertical CPUs)

UDMA-100 (Ultra Direct Memory Access, @100MHz)

ATA-100 (Advanced Technology Attachment, 美國標準協會規格)

FSB-100 (Front Size Bus, the system bus exchange data with CPU at 100MHz)

DDR (Double Data Rate - a new standard of RAM to double the data transfer rate of RAM with system board) 

BIOS (Basic Input Out System)

PCB (Printed Circuit Board)

Chip Sets:

Intel 440BX Chip Set (a chip set designed to support Pentium II, III, Celeron CPU)

Intel i815e Chip Set (a new chip set designed to support Pentium III and Celeron CPU at 133MHz FSB)

Intel i850 Chip Set (a new chip set designed to support Pentium 4 CPU at 150MHz FSB)

VIA 394X Chip Set (a chip set designed to support Pentium III and Celeron CPU)

VIA KT-133 Chip Set

AC97 Audio (on-board audio chip on most new system boards)

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Processor, a standard of graphic card, 64-bit)

CPU 中央處理器

CPU (Central Processing Unit, the calculation component in a PC)

MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second, the power of CPU in speed)

FC-PGA (Intel Flip Clip on Pin Grid Array package - Intel's new method to assemble the Pentium III CPU, i.e. to flip the core clip of the P-III CPUs from inside to the top of the CPU for a better heat management and data communication, use socket 370 together with heat-sink and fan) 

0.18u (advanced CPUs such as Pentium III and AMD Athlon produced with 0.18u Technology)

0.13u (most advanced CPUs such as Pentium 4 produced with 0.13u Technology to integrate more transistors in a chip)

MHz (Mega Hz, operation clock rate of system board, CPU)

GHz (Giga Hz, =1000MHz, operation clock rate of system board, CPU)

RAM 記憶體

RAM (Random Access Memory)

ROM (Read Only Memory)

PC-133 (Transfer rate of RAM to CPU at 133MHz)

RDRAM (Rambus Direct Random Access Memory developed by Intel)

SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory)

DDR (Double Data Rate - a new standard to double the data transfer rate of RAM with system board) 

Mb (Mega byte, unit of storage for hard disk and RAM)

IDE (Integrated Devise Electronics, a specification for data transfer between input devises with system board)

LBA (Logical Block Address)

IEEE 1394 (Institute of Electric & Electronic Engineers standard 1394, also known as Firewire, a new specification for high speed data transfer between input devises with system board @400Mb per second)

ISA (Industrial Standard Association, an old standard of internal interface with system board, 16-bit)

MO (Magneto Optical)

PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect, a standard of 32-bit internal interface with system board)

PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, PC Card for Notebooks)

RAID (Redundant Array with Independent Drives)

SCSI (Small Computer System Interface, a specification for data transfer between input devises with system board)

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)

USB (Universal System Bus, a specification for high speed data transfer between external input devises with system board, USB1.1 @40Mb per second, USB2.0 @480Mb per second)

UDMA-100 (Ultra Direct Memory Access, @100MHz)

ATA-100 (same as UDMA-100, 美國標準協會規格)

DVD (Digital Video Drive, or Digital Versatile Drive)

Mb (Mega byte, unit of storage for hard disk and RAM)

Gb (Giga byte, =1000Mb)

rpm (rotation per minute, unit for motor in Hard Disk)

ATA & UDMA Specifications and speed

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Processor, a standard of graphic cards, 64-bit)

CODEX (Compression Decompression)

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)

MPEG (Motion Picture Expert Group)

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)

LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)

TFT (Thin Film Transistors, Active Matrix LCD)

VGA (Video Graphic Adaptor, 640x480 resolution screen display, 256 colours)

SVGA (Super VGA, 800x600 resolution screen display, high colour)

XGA (Extended Graphic Adaptor, 1024x768 resolution screen display, true colour)

8-bit colour (256 colours)

16-bit colour (65K colours, or high colour)

32-bit colour (16.7M colours, or true colour of human eye)

10Base2 (10Mps transfer rate, use base band of the media, 180 Meters with Co-axial cable)

10BaseT (10Mps transfer rate, use base band of the media, 100 Meters with Catalog 5 UTP Telephone cable) 

100BaseT (100Mps transfer rate, use base band of the media, 100 Meters with enhanced Catalog 5 UTP Telephone cable)

EMI (Electromagnetic Interference)

TCP/IP (Transfer Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)

UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair network cable)

Mbps (Mega byte per second, unit for data transfer in LAN or disk system)