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What does the "Memory Clear" functionality mean in ASUS motherboards?

According to the user manual, Warm Boot RAM and Memory Clear have opposite effects. It is tough particularly with ASUS as usually the manuals are poorly translated to English. Warm Boot RAM will ...
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Repairing the Northbridge Heatsink / Thermal Glue with Alternative Product

It is possible that it was an adhesive thermal pad of some kind. There are many thermal pads that also have an adhesive layer and chances are your pad has simply dried out and gone brittle over time ...
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Find northbridge of my motherboard

A northbridge is a component of the motherboard chipset that goes between the CPU and the memory. Your motherboard doesn't have a northbridge. The memory controller is on the CPU die. Have a look at ...
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What does the "Memory Clear" functionality mean in ASUS motherboards?

Cold boot is when the computer it booted after it was completely shut down. Warm boot can only be initiated from Windows by doing Restart. The differences between warm and cold boots are: Warm boot ...
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Communication between CPU and Northbridge at different clock speeds?

There are buffers between the CPU and other components. These buffer have one side that runs at the CPU speed and one side that runs at the device speed. The CPU's write buffer is one example of such ...
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