MOTHER BOARD PARTS BY BOGDAN LANGONE

BACK PANEL CONNECTORS AND PORTS Back Panels= The back panel is the portion of the motherboard that allows you to connect external devices such as your monitor, speakers, keyboard, and mouse. As can be seen in the picture below, the back panel is on the edge of the motherboard. The back panel connectors are all the connectors mounted on the back panel. Ports= In computer hardware, a port serves as an interface between the computer and othercomputers or peripheral devices. Incomputer terms, a port generally refers to the female part of connection. Computer portshave many uses, to connect a monitor, webcam, speakers, or other peripheral devices.

PCI EXPRESS X1 SLOTS PCIe 1.x uses an 8b/10b encoding scheme, resulting in a 20% (= 2/10) overhead on the raw channel bandwidth. [32]8b/10b encoding [32]

PCI EXPRESS X16 SLOT The PCI Express x16 graphicsinterface (also called PCIe x16) offers increased bandwidth and scalability over the previous AGP8X generation. PCI Express x16 allows up to 4 GB/s of peak bandwidth per direction, and up to 8 GB/s concurrent bandwidth. PCI-Express x16 is used by the Intel 915 and 925 and other chipsets which support PCI-Express.graphicsinterfacebandwidthchipsetsPCI-Express

NORTH BRIDGE The Northbridge is the controller that interconnects the CPU to memory via the frontside bus (FSB). It also connects peripherals via high-speed channels such as AGP and PCI Express. Northbridge is an Intel chipset that communicates with the computer processor and controls interaction with memory, the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, Level 2 cache, and all Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) activities. Northbridge communicates with the processor using the frontside bus (FSB).

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) SOCKET A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.

POWER CONNECTOR Power connectors are devices that allows an electrical current to pass through it for the exclusive purpose of providing power to a device (not a data stream, for example, or anything more complex).

FRONT PANEL CONNECTORS The front panel header is where the connectors of hard disk drive activity lights, case speaker, reset button, power on/off button, computer power on light, and key lock, are connected to make them function smoothly. In the past days, users always have difficulty connecting the front panel due to a lack of standard location on the motherboard.

CMOS A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) is an integrated circuit design on a printed circuit board (PCB) that uses semiconductor technology. The CMOS is a physical part of the motherboard: it is a memory chip that houses setting configurations and is powered by the onboard battery. The CMOS is reset and loses all custom settings in case the battery runs out of energy, Additionally, the system clock resets when the CMOSloses power.

SOUTH BRIDGE Relatively slower connections USB, Ethernet, SATA BIOS The southbridge is one of the two chips in the core logic chipset on a personal computer (PC) motherboard, the other being the northbridge. The southbridge typically implements the slower capabilities of the motherboard in a northbridge/southbridgechipset computer architecture.

SATA CONNECTORS SATA. Stands for "Serial Advanced Technology Attachment," or "Serial ATA." It is an interface used to connect ATA hard drives to a computer's motherboard. Serial ATA (SATA, abbreviated from Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives.

RANDOM ACESS MEMORY (RAM) SLOTS Stands for "Random Access Memory," and is pronounced like the male sheep. RAM is made up of small memory chips that form amemory module. These modules are installed in the RAM slots on the motherboard of your computer.