What is Motherboard?
Posted on | April 27, 2009 | No Comments
The motherboard is the board where the computer components can be placed and interconnected. The motherboard is also a major source of power that set the work of all components are connected. The motherboard also set the power on each PC component.Motherboard installed in some components, such as the holder for the processor for both slot and socket, memory socket, slot AGP / PCI Express, PCI, chipset, CMOS components and supporting lainnya.Untuk help ease relations hardware or hardware-PC motherboard then used, Modern PC architecture thus:
Important parts in the motherboard:
Socket processors
Work to put the processor in the socket motherboard.bentuk vary depending on the processor that will be installed and the form of a socket on the motherboard.
Northbridge Chip
This chipset is located near the processor socket, to connect and work
Control system with a processor and system memory size grafis.Biasa its most disbanding chip – chip motherboard manufacturer lain. Sometimes add heatsinks or cooling fan over the chipset.
Southbridge Chip
This chipset is smaller than earlier Northbridge chipset, and serves to connect the IDE bus, PCI, keyboard, mouse, USB and power management.
PCI
Slot consists of 2-6 pieces (depending on the motherboard) that is used to drive additional peripherals such as PCI-based Sound card, TV tuner, modem.Slot supports 32-bit access.
Graphics AGP Slot / PCI Express
Used to drive grafis.slot this card there are 2 kinds of the AGP and PCI Express to AGP slot for this time have very rarely digunakan.PCI Express models have 2 PCI Express and PCI Express x16. By theoretical bandwidth of PCI Express has 4 GB / s and PCI Express x16 graphics display also promises a good game.
RAM slots
Slot-shaped length of the work to install the main memory / RAM. Shape and the number of slots depends on the motherboard.
CMOS battery
Small battery that works to save the system configuration computer.CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor).
BIOS chip
Same as the CMOS useful to store information in the BIOS (Basic Input / Output System).
Port Parallel ATA / IDE
Connectors for connecting peripherals such as IDE PATA HDD, CD drive or DVD.
SATA Port
Generation connected connectors for SATA HDD, or CD / DVD, and set it with the transfer rate is faster than the port ATA / IDE.
And more part – part of the motherboard, and have the capacity and functionality to support its own motherboard. For now many brands of motherboards have lived according to our needs and budget.
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