CPU's

Ghent

Studying for my A+ I seem to be memorizing a rather long list of long lists. I've memorized by IRQ's, DMA's, and AT commands so far, and am making good progress on my I/O addresses. That just leaves one more big list of stuff to memorize. Processors. I've got the list that comes with Mike Myers' book, that covers every Intel, AMD, and Cyrix processor since the 8088. I'm really not looking forwarded to memorizing the address bus size and so forth for all of these, so I'm wondering which ones I really need to know. Does A+ just test the Intel family, or do I have to know the difference between an Intel 386 and the AMD rip off?

jrowe

http://www.techexams.net/technotes/cpu_sockets.shtml

thats about all you'll need, give or take

Ghent

Thanx

Ghent

What about the size/ammount/type of internal/external cache and such for each chip? Or does the exam not get into that kind of detail?

jrowe

i wouldn't worry to much about cache sizes.

just understand the difference between L1 and L2 and where they are and what its general purpose is.

zeekabal

Man u dont to memorize any thing just the important things tht always can be found in an Core exam u dont have to memorize the processors netiher the bus sizes all wht u have to know is at which processor the protected mode was introduced which is 80286 , memorize only the IRQ channels no the DMA neither the I/O