Motherboard (Mainboard)
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The motherboard is a complex hardware component on which are mounted the rest of the hardware components of a PC or other electronic device.
Types
PC motherboards are categorized on dimensions:
- Extended ATX
- ATX
- microATX
- BTX
- mini-ITX
- nano-ITX
- pico-ITX
Motherboard's components
- chipset (northbridge and southbridge)
- socket of the processor
- RAM slots
- ISA, PCI, PCI-Express slots
- BIOS chip
- BIOS battery
- USB, SATA, eSATA, PATA, Firewire, S/PDIF (analog, optic) ports
- USB, CD-IN, Firewire, S/PDIF headers
Optional components
Motherboards can have integrated features like:
Normally this is a cheap and convenient solution. For quality features and speed there are used separate cards connected to the motherboard.
