Wednesday, September 7, 2011

HARDWARE - Motherboard

MotherBoard

Motherboard is the main circuit board which has some electronic components attached to it and others built into it. CPU, expansion slots, expansion cards, RAM slots, ports and connectors are the components on the motherboard.

The location of the slots for central processing unit (CPU), expansion slots, expansion cards, RAM slots, ports and connectors


DIAGRAM FOR COMPONENTS OF A MOTHERBOARD AND LOCATION OF EXPANSION SLOTS AND PORTS


  • PCI slots or expansion slot is a where expansion cards are attached to the motherboard. Examples of expansion cards are
    • Video Graphic Accelerator Cards(VGA),
    • Network Inteface Cards(NIC),
    • TV Card or Audio Card
  • Dimm Memory Channel or Ram slots is connector where RAM is inserted
  • CPU Socket is where the CPU is housed ( on the diagram its labeled as mPGA 476 Socket)
  • IDE connectors are for connecting hard disk or CDrom

Ports and connectors






EXAMPLES OF PORTS


1 comment:

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