CPU and RAM           

              Transmeta Corporation discovered in 1995 designed the TM5600 x86 efficient compatible software-based microprocessors that delivers a influential balance of low power consumption, high performance, low cost and small in size. Important for diverse computing platforms demanding energy efficiency, low heat and x86 software compatibility. Transmeta Corp. also developed superior power management technologies for controlling leakage and increasing power efficiency.

            The TM5600 has a 7- stage integer pipeline and a 10- stage floating point pipeline. The 64K of L1 instruction cache is 8-way set associative, and the 64K of L1 data cache is 16-way set associative.

Ram/Memory

            Ram comes in two different types to hold data dynamic Ram and static Ram. Dynamic Ram needs to be refreshed often unlike static Ram that doesn’t to be refreshed which makes it faster. Being much faster static Ram is significantly more expensive.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAM.html

            Random Access Memory is the best known form of memory for computers. The opposite of Ram is Serial Access memory. Serial Access Memory works very well for memory buffers.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ram.htm

            Shadow Ram is the part where it’s content copies from ROM’s to make it run faster. ROM is generally slower then Ram.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access_memory

Expansion Card/ Sound Card

            CREATIVE, Turtle Beach, SABRENT

Card Purchasing

            I would purchase the sound card by Creative. Creative features 7.1 channels, 24-bit 96KHz and PCI interface. The average rating for creative sound card ranges from four out of five to five out of five stars. With Prices ranging from $19.00 at the lowest  to the most expensive at $ 293.00.