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  2. AMD Platform Security Processor - Wikipedia

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    According to an AMD developer's guide, the subsystem is "responsible for creating, monitoring and maintaining the security environment" and "its functions include managing the boot process, initializing various security related mechanisms, and monitoring the system for any suspicious activity or events and implementing an appropriate response". [2]

  3. Windows System Assessment Tool - Wikipedia

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    The WEI includes five subscores: processor, memory, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, and disk; the basescore is equal to the lowest of the subscores and is not an average of the subscores. [1] [2] WinSAT reports WEI scores on a scale from 1.0 to 5.9 for Windows Vista, [3] 7.9 for Windows 7, [4] and 9.9 for Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and ...

  4. Protection ring - Wikipedia

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    Today, this high degree of interoperation between the OS and the hardware is not often cost-effective, despite the potential advantages for security and stability. Ultimately, the purpose of distinct operating modes for the CPU is to provide hardware protection against accidental or deliberate corruption of the system environment (and ...

  5. Game server - Wikipedia

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    A game server (also sometimes referred to as a host) is a server which is the authoritative source of events in a multiplayer video game.The server transmits enough data about its internal state to allow its connected clients to maintain their own accurate version of the game world for display to players.

  6. Trusted execution environment - Wikipedia

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    The first security level, Profile 1, was targeted against only software attacks, while Profile 2, was targeted against both software and hardware attacks. [ 4 ] Commercial TEE solutions based on ARM TrustZone technology, conforming to the TR1 standard, were later launched, such as Trusted Foundations developed by Trusted Logic.

  7. Configuration file - Wikipedia

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    For server processes and operating-system settings, there is often no standard tool, but operating systems may provide their own graphical interfaces such as YaST or debconf. Some computer programs only read their configuration files at startup. Others periodically check the configuration files for changes.

  8. Comparison of executable file formats - Wikipedia

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    This is a comparison of binary executable file formats which, once loaded by a suitable executable loader, can be directly executed by the CPU rather than being interpreted by software. In addition to the binary application code, the executables may contain headers and tables with relocation and fixup information as well as various kinds of ...

  9. Computer cooling - Wikipedia

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    A finned air cooled heatsink with fan clipped onto a CPU, with a smaller passive heatsink without fan in the background A 3-fan heatsink mounted on a video card to maximize cooling efficiency of the GPU and surrounding components Commodore 128DCR computer's switch-mode power supply, with a user-installed 60 mm cooling fan. Vertical aluminium ...