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A SATA power connector is what connects the SATA device to the PSU (power supply unit), therefore giving it a source of power. There is another cable that connects to the motherboard but that is just for data transfer.
A discrete device/component is not installed directly on the motherboard. See Discrete Graphics Card.
A typical motherboard contains the CPU, memory, storage, ROM BIOS, Southbridge and Northbridge chipsets, cooling fans, peripheral connector slots, connectors for peripheral devices, the battery backup and the power connector.
location on the motherboard into which a controller card for a peripheral device is stored
A motherboard is nor an output nor an input device. It is in the middle of these two and is a processing hardware device
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It is a ship
Windows Vista will not list the motherboard in the Device Manager. Other tools, such as CPU-Z, can display this information.
The motherboard.
peripheral
A PCI Express, Version 1 high-end video card using PCIe x16 slots.
A "Type A" connector.