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Passive cooling {Ans: This is a liquid cooling technique that uses a radiator to pump liquid through several tubes to help cool a CPU}Firmware {Ans: These types of programs are stored on chips. They are semi-permanent or permanent programs that enable the system to communicate.}System Setup {Ans: This is the configurable aspect of the BIOS, enabling the changes from boot orders, to the system time.}Hertz {Ans: This is the term used for Cycle per second.}Optical drive {Ans: These play disk media, such as CD's, DVD's, or blu-ray disks, or some can copy data to special disks in the form of burning data. It uses a laser to read the data on the disk.}Socket {Ans: This is the part on the MoBo that holds the CPU. It is classified by pin amount, thermal dissipation, speed, size, etc.}