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A fatherboard can be plugged into a motherboard. They can both support one or more child boards. Two motherboards can be connected with a special adapter. Fatherboards can fit directly together, but only when one is placed backwards.
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∙ 9y agoThe main board of a computer is called a motherboard. There is a special board you can install in a motherboard slot to add more slots. This special board is called a fatherboard. The additional cards you insert in the fatherboard slots are called daughterboards.
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What cannot bee replaced in motherboard?
A fatherboard :P
Why motherboard instead of fatherboard?
Because every component is linked to it (the motherboard), just like a child and a mother. Without a mother a child can't even be born and because of this people started calling it mother board. The actual name is main board.
How does the motherboard effect the computers performance?
I'm gonna try to be simplistic here.. The CPU processes data, so the faster the processor the more data it can process in a certain period of time, this is good if you are going to be doing processor intesive tasks, such as rendering a 3D animation, compiling source code, handling and editing very large images. But you must remember the CPU only processes information, so, if all you do in your computer is use a word processor, surf the web, listen to music and simple tasks like these, you don't need the latest most expensive processor available. The amount RAM is usually the thing that makes most computers seem slow, even though the processor is fairly good. Whenever you open a program, this program needs to load various things that it needs to work into the RAM. Whenever the RAM is full or almost full, the operating system uses "Virtual Memory" which is like RAM but on your hard disk. Using virtual memory causes you computer to seem very slow because the speed to write/read from you hard disk is much slower then the speed to write/read from RAM directly. So basically the more RAM you have, less likely it is for your operating system to use Virtual Memory (hard disk temp data). RAM is useful if you are multitasking, and not necesarilly tasks which are processor intensive. For example, say you like to surf the web (firefox), listen to music (iTunes), have a word proceessor open (MS Word), and have an image habndling program open (Adobe Photoshop). None of these programs are VERY processor intensive, but they do require quite some amount of RAM to run. So lets see: windows XP = 100MB firefox = 30MB iTunes = 40MB Word = 30MB Photoshop = 50MB This makes a total of 250MB If your computer has 256MB of RAM, at this stage it will become very slow because it has to use virtual memory to keep up with all your open programs. If you had 512MB, your computer would run smoothly. Windows Vista, is VERY RAM consuming, so it is recommended at least 1 or 2GB of RAM for it tu run well. Motherboard, Usually this is not a big deal, but the faster the motherboards bus is, the faster it can transfer data from the hard disk to RAM or processor. Something else that affects speed on your PC is the RPM on your hard disk. RPM = Revolutions per minute. Nowadays, the usual are 5400RPM or 7200RPM Laptops usually have hard drisk of 5400RPM and Desktops usually have 7200RPM This is the amount of times the disk can rotate in a minute, the faster it can rotate, the faster you can read/write data to it. Having a 5400RPM hard disk is noticeably slower then having a 7200RPM.
