Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Types of Computer Interferences

• Name: Moles Plug

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation

• Purpose – a two-piece pin and socket interconnection

• Spec:

  1. MOLEX
  2. AMP
  3. 24-Pin ATX
  4. 8-Pin ATX
  5. 6-Pin ATX
  6. 4-Pin ATX

• Name: SATA Cable

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation:

  1. Serial Advanced Technology .Attachment
  2. Serial ATA


• Purpose – Computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices

• Spec:
  1. SATA revision 1.0 (1.5 Gbit/s, 150 MB/s)
  2. SATA revision 2.0 (3 Gbit/s, 300 MB/s)
  3. SATA revision 3.0 (6 Gbit/s, 600 MB/s)
  4. SATA revision 3.1/ 3.2 (16 Gbit/s, 1969 MB/s)


• Name:  Jumper

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation

• Purpose –a Jumper is a short length of conductor used to close a break in or open, or bypass part of, an electrical circuit.

• Spec:

  1. 4-Pin
  2. 6-Pin
  3. 9-Pin


• Name: USB Header

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation:

  1. Digital Visual Interface (DVI)


• Purpose – connected equipment

• Spec:

  1. 10-pin header for USB 2.0
  2. 20-pin header for USB 3.0


• Name: DVI

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation:

  1. Digital Visual Interface

• Purpose – connect a video source, such as a display controller to a display device

• Spec:

  1. Minimum clock frequency: 25.175 MHz
  2. Single link maximum data rate including 8b/10b overhead is 4.95 Gbit/s @ 165 MHz
  3. Dual link maximum data rate is twice that of single link. Including 8b/10b overhead, the maximum data rate is 9.90 Gbit/s @ 165 MH


• Name: Thunderbolt

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation: NONE

• Purpose – Allows the connection of external peripherals to a computer

• Spec:

  1. Thunderbolt v1: 10 Gbit/s per channel (20 Gbit/s in total).
  2. Thunderbolt v2: 20 Gbit/s aggregated channels (20 Gbit/s in total).
  3. Thunderbolt v3: 40 Gbit/s


• Name: Ethernet

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation: NONE

• Purpose – computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs) and metropolitan area networks (MANs)

• Spec:

  1. original 2.94 megabits per second (Mbit/s)
  2. latest 100 gigabits per second (Gbit/s)
  3. 400 Gbit/s expected by late 2017



• Name: 3 Pin fan Connector

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation: None

• Purpose – To connect The Fan To The Motherboard

• Spec:

  1. (3 pin 12v /ground  / sensor )
  2. pin (212v /ground   )
  3. (4 pin 12v / 5v ground/ sensor)



• Name: VGA

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation:

  1. Video Graphics Array

• Purpose – Connect computer display to computer.

• Spec:

  1. 640x480 in 16 colors or monochrome 
  2. 640x350 or 640x200 in 16 colors or monochrome
  3. 320x200 in 4 or 16 colors
  4. 320x200 in 256 colors


• Name: Pcie Express

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation: Peripheral Component Interface Express

• Purpose – To connect external input devices.

• Spec:
  • v1.x (2.5 GT/s):
    • 250 MB/s (×1)
    • 4 GB/s (×16)
  • v2.x (5 GT/s):
    • 500 MB/s (×1)
    • 8 GB/s (×16)
  • v3.x (8 GT/s):
    • 985 MB/s (×1)
    • 15.75 GB/s (×16)
  • v4.0 (16 GT/s):
    • 1969 MB/s (×1)
    • 31.51 GB/s (×16)


• Name: FireWire 400

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation:None

• Purpose – created by apple for fast data transfer.

• Spec:  (Raw bandwidth :393 Mbit/s/ speed:49.13 MB/s )


• Name: PATA  IDE

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation: Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment

• Purpose – To Connect IDE Hard Drives to The Motherboard.


• Spec:  (Raw bandwidth:1.064 Gbit/s /Transfer Speed:133.3 MB/s )


• Name: Parallel ATA

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation:

  1. PATA
  2. IDE


• Purpose – Connect old IDE hard drives to motherboard for data transfer.

• Spec:  (Data Transfer Rates / Different versions)

  1. Transfer Speed: 133.3 MB/s
  2. RAW Bandwidth: 1.064 Gbit/s


• Name: USB 3.0

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation:

  1. Universal Serial Bus

• Purpose – Connect external peripherals using a single power and data transfer connection.

• Spec:  (Data Transfer Rates / Different versions)

  1. Transfer speed: 400 MB/s or more
  2. RAW Bandwidth: 5 Gbit/s


• Name USB 2.0

• Meaning or Acronym or other designation:




  1. Universal Serial Bus
• Purpose – Connect external peripherals using a single power and data transfer connection

• Spec:  (Data Transfer Rates / Different versions)
  1. Transfer speed: 35 MB/s
  2. RAW Bandwidth: 480 Mbit/s