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Motherboard Basics and Features

The motherboard is the central circuit board inside a PC that connects most of the computer's components like the RAM, hard drive, graphics card, and sound card. It contains the chipsets and printed circuit board and has slots for expansion cards. Motherboards support built-in video, sound, and networking and include connectors for additional boards. Manufacturers include Intel, ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte, and the most common form factor is ATX.

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Motherboard Basics and Features

The motherboard is the central circuit board inside a PC that connects most of the computer's components like the RAM, hard drive, graphics card, and sound card. It contains the chipsets and printed circuit board and has slots for expansion cards. Motherboards support built-in video, sound, and networking and include connectors for additional boards. Manufacturers include Intel, ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte, and the most common form factor is ATX.

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Introduction to Motherboard

Motherboard is a central circuit board, main board inside the PC and the logic board in the Apple
Computer. It is the main component inside the computer. Most of the computer devices such as
RAM, hard disk, CD-ROM, Sound card, Video card, LAN controllers, sockets, expansion slots,
BIOS and the peripheral devices are directly connected with it. 

It also contains different chips that are collectively known as chipsets. It also contains the printed
circuit board that is also known as PCB. There are different slots for the different cards like LAN
card, Sound card and VGA card.   There are usually two types of the expansion slots that are
known as PCI and ISA.

Most of the motherboards support the built-in VGA, Sound and LAN cards so there is no need to
insert them separately.  Most of the main boards are manufactured for the IBM compatible
computers and they also contain the connectors for attaching the additional main boards. They
are often air cooled and supplied with the fan and heat sinks, which absorbs the heat inside the
computer. It also holds the processor like Intel, Intel Celeron and AMD. 

Before choosing the motherboard you need to make sure that there are no compatibility issues
with the other hardware inside your computer.  The most commonly used architecture is the
ATX.  Intel, ASUS, MSI, DFI and the Gigabyte are the main manufacturers.  Latest motherboard
provides the features like PCI slots, IDE interfaces, USB ports and AGP slots.

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