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The mother board is a piece of fiberglass upon which you mount the basic pieces of your computer. It is (usually) a printed circuit board, and contains a minimum of the master clock and the CPU. All else is optional, but may well be everything that makes up your computer except the keyboard, the monitor, and the power supply.

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I'd say there is more than 3 components to make a motherboard, a motherboard. Maybe you want to know what are the 3 components of a computer. All computer is composed of an input device, a processing device and an output device. All 3 may be connected to a motherboard.

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If you are referring to chemical elements, then list is extremely long. Much of a computer is plastic, such as the casing and PCBs. Those are made of various different polymers made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, and occasionally other elements. The frame and racks within the computer's casing is usually steel (iron and carbon) and/or aluminum. As for the circuits and wires, they are usually copper. The solder that holds all the electronic components is usually made up of a mixture of tin, zinc, lead, silver, and a few minor components such as antimony. The IC chips, cores in the CPU, RAM cards, and non-volatile solid state memory systems contain silicon. The contacts on chips are usually made of brass (copper and zinc). The resistors are usually made of various different metals depending on their resistance, often lead, zinc, etc. The pins on the bottom of the CPU are plated with gold (although only a few cents worth). The CMOS battery may contain many different things, but usually contains silicon and metal oxide insulators. The diodes and transistors contain crystallized silicon semiconductors. The capacitors usually contain ceramic (silicon oxide) or tantalum. The hard drives contain many of the previously mentioned materials in PCB, solder, wires, circuits, resistors, diodes, transistors, and IC chips. The frame may be made of aluminum or steel, but an iron layer is always present to protect against damage from magnetic fields. The disk is usually made of aluminum, and a thin coating of magnetic material (often with iron, nickel, or cobalt) is put on the surface of the disk. The heads contain copper electromagnetic coils. A lot of these components have heat syncs as well, and they may be made from copper or aluminum most effectively, but may also be made from steel. If the computer is a laptop, then it is going to have a battery. This battery could be Li-ion, which would contain copper, zinc, aluminum, and lithium. It could be ni-cad, which would contain copper, zinc, aluminum, nickel, and cadmium. It could be NiMH which would contain copper, zinc, aluminum, nickel, and hydrogen (in the form of nickel hydride). It could also be Li-pol which would contain copper, zinc, aluminum, lithium, and a polymer (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, fluorine, etc.). If you have a monitor for that computer, it could be CRT, LCD, or plasma. CRT (and all these display types) uses all the standard plastics, steel frame, PCB, wiring, circuit components, but it has a fluorescent layer where the images on the screen are formed. These contain europium and strontium. If it is LCD, then it uses liquid crystals such as N-(4-Methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline which contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. The backlight could be either fluorescent or LED. If it is fluorescent, then it contains a small amount of Mercury. If it is LED, then it contains small amounts of gallium. If the monitor is plasma (which is not the best for computers) then it contains mercury, europium, and strontium.

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A computer motherboard generally contains chipsets. These chipsets provide and control a variety of functions of a computer system such as sound, display and connectivity.

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Primarily Silicon as it is a semiconductor, Boron and Phosphorous are also in silicon chips to alter the number free electrons.

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RAM (random access memory), CPU (central processing unit), HDD (Hard disk drive)....

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Processor, Memory, Northbridge, Southbridge

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