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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 — Hardware and Performance

What makes one machine faster than another, and how to choose.

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Issues in Technology Crossword: eWaste from hardware upgrades to What is RADCAB? (Part 2 of 2) 10 clues · eWaste from hardware upgrades, Does RAM really matter?, GPU vs CPU - which matters more?, Hardware cost vs performance and more
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Issues in Technology Word Search: Is AI using too much power? to What is RADCAB? (All modules) 22 words to find · Is AI using too much power?, How does an AI actually work?, Compression - losing quality or saving space?, Why file size matters and more
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Years 5–6 Digital Systems Crossword: Inside digital systems (Modules 1–10) 10 clues · Digital system, Hardware, Software, Input, process, output and storage and more
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Years 5–6 Digital Systems Crossword: Inside digital systems and Data and networks (Modules 11–20) 10 clues · Cloud storage, Motherboard, Graphics processing unit (GPU), Network interface (wired and wireless adapter) and more
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Years 5–6 Digital Systems Word Search: Inside digital systems and Data and networks (Modules 1–20) 20 words to find · Digital system, Hardware, Software, Input, process, output and storage and more
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Years 7–8 Digital Systems Crossword: Hardware for particular tasks (Modules 4–19) 10 clues · CPU clock speed (GHz), CPU cores, HDD vs SSD performance, Storage units: KB, MB, GB, TB and more
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Years 7–8 Digital Systems Word Search: Hardware for particular tasks to Account security and cyber threats (Modules 4–74) 20 words to find · CPU clock speed (GHz), CPU cores, HDD vs SSD performance, Storage units: KB, MB, GB, TB and more
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IGCSE Computer Science Paper 1 Crossword: 3.1 Computer Architecture (Modules 228–239) 10 clues · The fetch-decode-execute cycle, Fetch: sending the address from the PC to the MAR, Fetch: reading the instruction from RAM into the MDR, Fetch: incrementing the PC and copying the instruction to the CIR and more
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IGCSE Computer Science Paper 1 Crossword: 3.3 Data Storage (Modules 314–324) 10 clues · Comparing magnetic, optical and solid-state storage, Choosing a secondary storage device for a scenario, Virtual memory, Why virtual memory is needed and more
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IGCSE Computer Science Paper 1 Word Search: 3.1 Computer Architecture (Modules 218–239) 21 words to find · Registers, Program counter (PC), Memory address register (MAR), Memory data register (MDR) and more
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IGCSE Computer Science Paper 1 Word Search: 3.3 Data Storage (Modules 304–324) 20 words to find · Why secondary storage is needed, Magnetic storage: platters, tracks and sectors, Magnetic storage: reading and writing with electromagnets, Hard disk drive (HDD) and more
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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 5–6 Crossword: Inside Digital Systems and Networks and Sharing Data (Modules 5–26) 10 clues · The same main parts in computers, tablets, phones and consoles, RAM and storage compared, Devices that are both input and output, Sorting a device's parts into input, process, store and output and more
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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 5–6 Word Search: Inside Digital Systems and Networks and Sharing Data (Modules 5–43) 20 words to find · The same main parts in computers, tablets, phones and consoles, RAM and storage compared, Devices that are both input and output, Sorting a device's parts into input, process, store and output and more
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Crossword: Hardware and Performance (Modules 13–40) 10 clues · Clock speed or more cores: which helps which task, How much RAM different tasks need, Choosing storage type and size together, Video memory (VRAM) and more
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Word Search: Hardware and Performance and Wired and Wireless Networks (Modules 13–68) 20 words to find · Clock speed or more cores: which helps which task, How much RAM different tasks need, Choosing storage type and size together, Video memory (VRAM) and more

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Is this aligned to a curriculum?

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