Monday, September 20, 2010

What is a Motherboard

A computer motherboard is nothing but the circuit board or the circuit which controls the entire functioning of the computer.A computer motherboard is the soul of your computer. This is where the most important entity, your computer processor, is embedded and the connection to all computer peripherals goes.
Without a motherboard, we wouldn't be able to play games, watch movies, listen to music, and do any kind of work on our computer. It is the backbone of the computer. Let's know more on motherboards.

A motherboard is the most important component in the CPU. It is a piece of hardware that is a circuit, and is flat and rectangular in shape. It consists of the computer's micro-processing chip with many components attached to it that play a very important role in the operation of the computer system. It is a circuit on which everything is connected to something. It has many other names like main board, system board, and logic board and also 'mobo' as an abbreviation. It has many ports and slots which can be used by other computer hardware peripherals. Components like RAM, CPU, hard disks, optical drives, disk drives, video and sound cards are all plugged into sockets on the motherboard, directly or via cables. It functions crucially in the transfer of data and information to all the connected peripherals. It is also used in many other electronic devices such as televisions, mobile phones, clocks and so on. All motherboards may not be compatible with every peripheral. The motherboard manufacturers should be able to provide the consumer with information about the type of products compatible with the motherboard.

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