Processor definitions

All motherboard definitions found on our motherboard section.
Number

286
287
386
386DX
386SL
3DNow!
4004
486
486DX
486DX4
486SL
486SX
486SX2
586
68000
8080
8086
8087
80286
80287
80386
80386DX
80386SL
80486
80486DX
80486DX4
80486SL
80486SX
80486SX2
88000

A

Active heatsink
Adder
ALU
AMD64
ATC
Athlon

B

BGA

C

CAS
Celeron
Central Processing Unit
Ceramic Pin Grid Array
CISC
Column Access Strobe
Complex Instruction Set Computer
CPGA
Clock cycle
Clock speed
Clock-doubling
Clock-pulse
Cobra
Context switch
Control unit
Coppermine
Coprocessor
Core
Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Extreme
Core 2 Quad
Core Duo
Core logic
Core Solo
CPU

D

Digital Signal Processor
DSP
DTS
Dual-core
Dual processor

E

EIST

F

FC-PGA
Floating-Point coprocessor
FLOPS
FPU

G

GHz

H

Heat sink
Hertz
Hyper-threading
HyperTransport

I

IA-64
Instructions
Intel Core
Interposer
Itanium

J

Job number

K

KHz

L

L1
L2
L3
Level 1 caching
Level 2 caching
Level 3 caching
LGA
LIF
Logic chip
Low-insert force

M

Math coprocessor
Mendocino
Megaflops
Microprocessor
MIPS
MMU
MMX
Moore's Law
Multi-core
Multiplier
Multiprocessing

N

NEC V20
Numeric coprocessor

O

ODP
ODPR
Overclock
OverDrive
OverDrive Processor
OverDrive Processor Replacement

P

P2
P4
P5
P6
Parallel processing
Passive heatsink
Pentium
Pentium II
Pentium III
Pentium III 533B
Pentium III 600B
Pentium M
Pentium Pro
Pin Grid Array
Pipeline
Pipelining
PowerPC
PGA
PowerNow!
PPGA
Preprocessor
Process
Processing
Processing capacity
Processor
Processor slot
Processor throttling
Protected mode

Q
Currently no listings
R

Real mode
RISC

S

Sandy Bridge
SECC
Secondary cache
Sequential processing
Single threading
Slot
Slot 1
Slot A
Slotket
SMI
SMM
SMP
Socket
Socket 1
Socket 2
Socket 3
Socket 4
Socket 5
Socket 6
Socket 7
Socket 370
Socket AM2
SPARC
SpeedStep
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
Superscalar

T

Teraflop
Thermal compound
TLP
Trusted Execution Technology

U
Currently no listings
V

V20
V30
Virtual core
Virtual real mode
VRM

W

Wait state
Work stealing
Wrapper

X

X86
Xeon
XScale

Y
Currently no listings
Z

Zero out
ZIF socket