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  2. Thermal design power - Wikipedia

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    Thermal Design Power (TDP), also known as thermal design point, is the maximum amount of heat that a computer component (like a CPU, GPU or system on a chip) can generate and that its cooling system is designed to dissipate during normal operation at a non-turbo clock rate (base frequency).

  3. Computer cooling - Wikipedia

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    A computer with thermal sensors integrated in the CPU, motherboard, chipset, or GPU can shut itself down when high temperatures are detected to prevent permanent damage, although this may not completely guarantee long-term safe operation. Before an overheating component reaches this point, it may be "throttled" until temperatures fall below a ...

  4. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...

  5. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    CRS—Computer Reservations System; CRT—Cathode-ray tube; CRUD—Create, read, update and delete; CS—Cable Select; CS—Computer Science; CSE—Computer science and engineering; CSI—Common System Interface; CSM—Compatibility support module; CSMA/CD—Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection; CSP—Cloud service provider

  6. Overclocking - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of overclocking is to increase the operating speed of a given component. [3] Normally, on modern systems, the target of overclocking is increasing the performance of a major chip or subsystem, such as the main processor or graphics controller, but other components, such as system memory or system buses (generally on the motherboard), are commonly involved.

  7. Computer fan - Wikipedia

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    A computer fan is any fan inside, or attached to, a computer case used for active cooling. Fans are used to draw cooler air into the case from the outside, expel warm air from inside and move air across a heat sink to cool a particular component. Both axial and sometimes centrifugal (blower/squirrel-cage) fans are used in computers.

  8. Lean-burn - Wikipedia

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    The engine computer stores optimum air fuel ratios for all engine-operating conditions—from lean (for normal operation) to richest (for heavy acceleration) and all points in between. Full-range oxygen sensors (used for the first time) provide essential information that allows the computers to properly regulate fuel delivery.

  9. Halt and Catch Fire (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Apocryphal stories connect this term with an illegal opcode in IBM System/360. A processor, upon encountering the instruction, would start switching bus lines very fast, potentially leading to overheating. [5] [6] In a computer's assembly language, mnemonics are used that are directly equivalent to machine code instructions. The mnemonics are ...