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What is a motherboard?
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Thursday February 4, 2010
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Thursday February 4, 2010
Motherboard is another one of those weird computer terms that may seem to have no definable etymology. However, the term makes a lot of sense once it's been explained. Your house is built on a foundation. The foundation supports everything else that goes into the house. Electrical, plumbing and more. Think of the motherboard as the foundation of your personal computer.
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- The motherboard is a printed circuit board.
- It's also sometimes called the system board.
- The motherboard is the foundation for your computer.
- Early motherboards contained very little, other than the CPU (Central Processing Unit).
- With these, you had to install cards for nearly everything, including floppy drives, graphics, sound, hard drives, and so on.
- Modern motherboards now contain graphics, sound, DVD controllers and much more as part of their architecture.
- This means that modern motherboards are much more comprehensive and you need cards for fewer peripherals.
- It's also sometimes called the system board.
- The motherboard is the foundation for your computer.
- Early motherboards contained very little, other than the CPU (Central Processing Unit).
- With these, you had to install cards for nearly everything, including floppy drives, graphics, sound, hard drives, and so on.
- Modern motherboards now contain graphics, sound, DVD controllers and much more as part of their architecture.
- This means that modern motherboards are much more comprehensive and you need cards for fewer peripherals.
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