What does the chip do?

Question

Curious.

I have heard people talking about burning chips that can be used to improve the performance of their computer.

But what do they put in their chips? A full program or just some routines?

Can we put a full program on a chip? Can we put a pac man or space invader program in the chip? Or a word processor program in it?

If we can, how can we direct the PC to load the program off the chip? I mean the PC only load programs from Drives A, C, D and F, doesn't it?

How do you set off your computer to read off a burnt chip.

Answer 1

The original games were burned onto chips called 'PROMS' (programmable read only memory).

They evolved into 'EEPROMS' (electronically erasable programmable read only memory) which could be wiped out and have new info put on them.

You could set up a computer to read off of a burned chip, but there is no point - it wouldn't be faster than even the cheapest computers available now. Whoever is talking about burning chips to make their computer faster is probably just stoned, and babbling.

Answer 2

Depends on the chip you're talking about. If it's the "chip set" then thats what sits between the CPU (brain) and the motherboard (body) of the computer. If you're just talking about RAM then that's where your programs sit while you're using them. Faster RAM means faster work. You wouldn't store a program or anything in a chip.

Answer 3

The only chip that you can burn, fit in your computer and it would affect its performance is the CMOS chip. A bigger chip than the original could be installed and could accordingly contain advanced BIOS features to tweak the PC performance or device its over clocking. However, this could be experimental and risky. … Good luck.