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Is the tower the motherboard

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The tower is the case and everything inside it, whereas the motherboard is the big chip inside with everything plugging into it, graphics cards, CPU and other things.

If you open the side of the case the motherboard is hard to miss.

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