1.9. Answers to Review Questions

  1. A. The spine of the computer is the system board, otherwise known as the motherboard. On the motherboard you will find the CPU, underlying circuitry, expansion slots, video components, RAM slots, and various other chips.

  2. C. DDR SDRAM is manufactured on a 184-pin DIMM. DIMMs with 168 pins were used for SDR SDRAM. The SIMM is the predecessor to the DIMM, on which SDRAM was never deployed. RIMM is the Rambus proprietary competitor for the DIMM that carries DRDRAM instead of SDRAM.

  3. B. Remember the 8:1 rule. Modules greater than, but not including, SDR SDRAM are named with a number 8 times larger than the number used to name the chips on the module. The initials PC are used to describe the module, the initials DDR

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