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Computer - Motherboard

The motherboard connects all the internal components of a computer together, serving as the central platform. It connects the CPU, memory, storage drives, video card, and other ports. The motherboard varies in its component compatibility and comes from popular manufacturers like Intel, Asus, and Gigabyte. It mounts inside the computer case and provides sockets and slots to connect the CPU, memory, storage, and expansion cards, as well as external ports on the rear for monitors, keyboards, and networking.

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The motherboard connects all the internal components of a computer together, serving as the central platform. It connects the CPU, memory, storage drives, video card, and other ports. The motherboard varies in its component compatibility and comes from popular manufacturers like Intel, Asus, and Gigabyte. It mounts inside the computer case and provides sockets and slots to connect the CPU, memory, storage, and expansion cards, as well as external ports on the rear for monitors, keyboards, and networking.

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6/23/2021 Computer - Motherboard - Tutorialspoint

Computer - Motherboard

The motherboard serves as a single platform to connect all of the parts of a computer together. It
connects the CPU, memory, hard drives, optical drives, video card, sound card, and other ports and
expansion cards directly or via cables. It can be considered as the backbone of a computer.

Features of Motherboard

A motherboard comes with following features −


Motherboard varies greatly in supporting various types of components.

Motherboard supports a single type of CPU and few types of memories.


Video cards, hard disks, sound cards have to be compatible with the motherboard to
function properly.
Motherboards, cases, and power supplies must be compatible to work properly together.

Popular Manufacturers

Following are the popular manufacturers of the motherboard.


Intel
ASUS
AOpen
ABIT

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Biostar
Gigabyte
MSI

Description of Motherboard
The motherboard is mounted inside the case and is securely attached via small screws through
pre-drilled holes. Motherboard contains ports to connect all of the internal components. It provides
a single socket for CPU, whereas for memory, normally one or more slots are available.
Motherboards provide ports to attach the floppy drive, hard drive, and optical drives via ribbon
cables. Motherboard carries fans and a special port designed for power supply.
There is a peripheral card slot in front of the motherboard using which video cards, sound cards,
and other expansion cards can be connected to the motherboard.
On the left side, motherboards carry a number of ports to connect the monitor, printer, mouse,
keyboard, speaker, and network cables. Motherboards also provide USB ports, which allow
compatible devices to be connected in plug-in/plug-out fashion. For example, pen drive, digital
cameras, etc.

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