Motherboard Basics
What is a Motherboard?
Motherboard
Basics - What is a motherboard? The motherboard or system board
or logic board is the primary PCB or printed circuit board
inside a computer, regardless of whether it’s desktop pc, a
server, a Macintosh or Laptop, they all have this in common.
The motherboard
consists of a CPU socket where the CPU or central processing
unit sits.
Memory slots where
RAM is installed, xx.Peripheral Slots such as PCIe, PCI and AGP
where such items as modems, graphic cards, USB cards, network
cards, sounds cards are installed.
IDE or PCI express
sockets where the hard drive runs from xx.Power Sockets,
normally two, these run from the power supply.
Core circuitry such as the chipset which is hard coded into the
chipset, this tells the motherboard how to run, at what speed to
run, how to recognize which components have been fitted to the
motherboard.
Motherboard sizes
actually adhere to physical sizes for example An ATX motherboard
is 12 x 9.6 inches, Micro ATX 9.6 x 9.6 inches, Flex ATX 9 x 7.5
inches, Mini ATX 6.7 x 6.7 inches.
The sizes above were
put together as an industry standard so that when we purchase a
computer case, simply make sure it matches the motherboard size
name and you can be sure it will be a precise fit in terms of
dimensions, but all with card slot alignment.
xx above we talked
about RAM and Hardrives, a Hard drive simply stores your
information when it is not being used.
RAM or Random Access
Memory on the other hand is temporary storage.
When you load an
application or file the operating system looks for the file on
the hard drive, then loads it into the RAM so you can view,
modify or copy the file, when you save or close the file it then
gets stored back on the hard drive.
The difference
between hard drive and ram storage Hard drive storage is slower
than RAM storage, but hard drive storage is permanent, RAM
storage is temporary, once you power off your pc, your hard
drive will retain everything on it, anything stored in RAM on
the other hand is deleted as it can only hold data when the
computer is powered on.
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