The motherboard is the main printed circuit board and contains the buses, or electrical pathways, found in a computer. These buses allow data to travel between the various components that comprise a computer. A motherboard is also known as the system board, the backplane, or the main board. The motherboard accommodates the central processing unit (CPU), RAM, expansion slots, heat sink/fan assembly, BIOS chip, chip set, and the embedded wires that interconnect the motherboard components. Sockets, internal and external connectors, and various ports are also placed on the motherboard. The form factor of motherboards pertains to the size and shape of the board. It also describes the physical layout of the different components and devices on the motherboard. Various form factors exist for motherboards. An important set of components on the motherboard is the chip set. The chip set is composed of various integrated circuits attached to the motherboard that control how system hardware interacts with the CPU and motherboard. The CPU is installed into a slot or socket on the motherboard. The socket on the motherboard determines the type of CPU that can be installed. The chip set of a motherboard allows the CPU to communicate and interact with the other components of the computer, and to exchange data with system memory, or RAM, hard disk drives, video cards, and other output devices. The chip set establishes how much memory can be added to a motherboard. The chip set also determines the type of connectors on the motherboard. Most chip sets are divided into two distinct components, Northbridge and Southbridge. What each component does varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but in general the Northbridge controls access to the RAM, video card, and the speeds at which the CPU can communicate with them. The video card is sometimes integrated into the Northbridge. The Southbridge, in most cases, allows the CPU to communicate with the hard drives, sound card, USB ports, and other I/O ports. sorry , it is only defination.
Motherboard is the main component of the computer. Think of motherboard as the nervous system in your body, it connect each part of your body to the brain. So does the motherboard, it connect each hardware to the processor. Now a day motherboard also has some build in peripheral(s) such as sound card, graphic card. A system board (or colloquially termed as "motherboard") is the base of the computer - it ties every other component that will make up a computer (processor, RAM, storage, external peripherals and add-in cards) and will provide power to them that it gets from a power supply.
that is the main circuit board inside a computer. Every other component is connected to the motherboard in order to work.
A motherboard is the backbone of a PC. It is what all the components attach to. You cannot have a PC without a motherboard (Currently).
The motherboard is main part of CPU. All parts do connect with motherboard.
A green motherboard
The socket type that it uses
The Dell Optiplex GX620 SFF uses an F8101/0F8101 type motherboard.
The Dell XPS 400 series uses a BTX format motherboard. A BTX motherboard measures approximately 325 by 266 milimeters.
LPX or mini LPX uses a riser card ( also called a bus riser or daughter card). LPX motherboard has the riser card near the center, whereas the NLX motherboard has the riser at the edge of the board.
The maximum size for a microATX motherboard is 244mm*244mm or 9.6in*9.6in.
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The maximum size of a microATX motherboard is 244 mm × 244 mm (9.6 in × 9.6 in)
If you MAC is old then it uses a different motherboard than a PC. These days MAC also uses intel processors so in theory you can use the same motherboard as PC but there may be problems in adding the peripherals like MAC's keyboard and mouse to the PC motherboard and vice-versa. It all depends upon what you have got.
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The MSI PT880NEO motherboard unfortunately uses an Intel Socket 478, which fits the Pentium 4 processor. An AMD Duron is incompatible with this motherboard, so sorry!