a motherboard
Name three things which are contained on the motherboard of computer
assuming the older mother board has similar sockets and slots for your current devices parts (and your motherboard supports those devices) you should have no problem downgrading
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
All the devices in your computer go through your motherboard. Excluding things such as fans and lights, which apon occasion do.
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.
Your motherboard is attached to a power supply inside your system if it is desktop, and a mobile power supply if it is a laptop. The motherboard is built so it fits right into your computer and plugs in. Once it is plugged into that power supply in your computer, then everything else you put in it follows with it. That includes your GPU (graphics card), your CPU (processor), memory, hard drive, the fans for the CPU and GPU, and other things. There are alot of things that a motherboard attaches to.
It's the battery on a Motherboard/Similar COmputer Component that allows it to retain BIOS information
The motherboard is main part of CPU. All parts do connect with motherboard.
Yes. loimited by Motherboard chipset - check out the specs for your mobo at Tom's hardware or similar site.
in order for them to fit .. every year they are making things smaller and smaller and making adjustments on things. So they change slightly. Overall though the components are pretty much the same as they have been.
Quality of the chipsets, amount of ports, bus speeds, limits of memory CPU speed. Kinds of ports. Optional things like raid, firewire etc.