1.

1 Please list two native display modes that are likely to be used on a 17" wide
screen lcd monitor.

[1 point]
for 17" Wide Screen
1280x800
1440x900, more likely

1.2 A 64MB Graphics card has much more RAM on it than would be needed to hold the
highest graphics mode that a 17” screen could display in true color.

What would the extra RAM be used for? [1 point]

Texture data when playing games

2.1 Say if computer A is likely to use SD, DDR, or DDR2 memory and Say if computer
B likely to use SD, DDR, or DDR2 memory and explain your answers [2 point].
Comp A 184pin must use DDR or DDR2, check notch location to see if its ddr or
ddr2. More likely to be DDR2 since with a chipset capable of 16x pci-e, that
chipset most likely also supports ddr2.

Comp B 168pin with Athlon XP cpu must be SDRAM, most likely pc133 or PC100

3 The user has indicated that he would like to upgrade the video card on Computer
A to a more powerful PCI Express video card for playing modern computer games. Can
you find a price for a modern card, with at least 256MB or RAM costing under $160.

8600GT or 8500GT for around 50-60 bucks. As low as 40 or less on special

clearance. Check newegg for 8500gt and 8600gt

The card that you buy cannot use the ATI X1600 Pro chipset, but must select a card
that uses a chipset that would typically be rated by reviewers as faster than the
X1600 pro chipset [2 points]

get 8600GT or 8600GTS, if u want more power, get 8800GTS or 8800GT

4.1.

What capacity and kind of DIMM(s) would you order to best meet computer A needs
and how much RAM in total would be in the computer after your suggested upgrade [2
points]

Confirm that it uses DDR2 ram, then buy a 2GB Crucial Ballistix kit (2 X 1GB) for
around 25. I got mine for $5. Ditch all the ram currently in there because the
ballistix will run at 800mhz and the ram in use most likely is way slower.

4.2.

What capacity and kind of DIMM(s) would you order to best meet computer B needs
and how much RAM in total would be in the computer after your suggested upgrade [2
points]

Buy 2 512MB PC133 SDRAM modules from newegg for no more than 40 bucks.
5.1 How would you write your RAM for computer A above order using purely numeric
notation.
2048 2X1024 6400 184

[2 points]

5.2 How would you write your RAM for computer B above order using purely numeric
notation.

1024 2X512 133 168

[2 points]

6. Suggest two Monitor that he could buy for under $180 each. Explain your choice
in terms of the physical size, resolution; refresh rate and overall quality of the
monitor.

TWO 20" Widescreen LCD from BestBuy using 10% off coupon. 1680X1050 resolution,
get Westinghouse, Acer, Samsung, or whatever is on sale at Bestbuy.
Under 8ms refresh rate is fast enough, get DVI capable LCD and remember to buy DVI
cables.

[1 Point]

7.

1 Suggest a suitable hard disk for computer A that costs under $140 but holds more
than 240GB [1 Point]

500GB SATA harddrive cost less than 100 bucks usually. Get SATA harddrives since
comp A most likely uses SATA
if no sata interface, then buy a 500GB PATA drive for around same price.

7.2 Given that this new disk is being installed into an older computer, what
special extra hardware may be needed to allow the new hard disk to work with an
older computer.

Check to see that the mobo has sata interface, then check that PSU has sata power
connector, if not, and the HD doesn't come with molex adapter, then buy a molex to
sata power adapter

[1 Points]

7.3 Other than buying new hardware, are there any software or firmware issues that
the user should be made aware of before they select any new hard drive.

don't screw around with HD's firmware, remember to install the right ahci driver
to enable NCQ

[ 1 Points]
7.4 The user wishes to keep his current hard disk.

Can you use the Internet to find out the jumpers setting for master/slave and
drive setup parameters for configuring the Western Digital Caviar WD272AA hard
disk as master and slave? [2 Points]

jumper settings are on the harddrive itself. Look carefully!

7.5 The user is unsure of the exact capacity of computer A's hard disk.

Given that the WDC WD272AA hard disk holds 53,128,656 blocks, calculate the exact
capacity of this disk in both bytes and gigabytes [2 Points]

WD272AA is 27.2GB that's why its wd(272)AA

in bytes, approximately 2.92057776 × 10^10 bytes.

This harddrive is IDE, not sata.