INTRODUCTION

HISTORY

CONTENTS

GALERY

CONCLUSION

A motherboard is a the central printed board.

Sometimes know as the main board , system board or logic board.

It also sometimes casually shortened to MOBO.

Most computer motherboards produced today are design for IBM-compatible computers.

The early pioneers of motherboard manufacturing were Micronics , AMI, DTK, Hauppauge, Elite group.

During the late 1980s and 1990s, it became economical to move an increasing number of peripheral functions onto the motherboard.

Integrated Peripherals

Temperature and Reliability

Form Factor

What are included in modern motherboard?

Nvidia SLI and ATI Crossfire

Integrated Peripheral Card Slots

Modern Motherboards include , at a minimum :

Microprocessors sockets or slots.System’s main memory slots.A chipset.Non-volatile memory chips.A clock generator. Slots for expansion cards.Power connectors flickers.

Integrated peripherals on motherboard such as :

Disk controllers for a floppy disk drive.

Integrated ATI Radeon graphics controller.

Integrated sound card.

Fast Ethernet network controller .

USB 2.0 controller.

IrDA controller for infrared data communication.

Temperature, voltage, and fan-speed sensors .

A typical motherboard of 2007 will have a different number of connections depending on its standard.

A standard ATX motherboard will typically have 1x PCI-E 16x connection for a graphics card, 2x PCI slots for various expansion cards and 1x PCI-E 1x which will eventually supersede PCI.

A standard Super ATX motherboard will have 1x PCI-E 16x connection for a graphics card. It will also have a varying number of PCI and PCI-E 1x slots.

Some motherboards have 2x PCI-E 16x slots, to allow more than 2 monitors without special hardware or to allow use of a special graphics technology called SLI (for Nvidia) and Crossfire (for ATI).

Motherboards are generally air cooled with heat sinks .

If the motherboard is not cooled properly, will cause computer to crash.

Motherboards use electrolytic capacitors to filter the DC power distributed around the board.

Motherboards are produced in a variety of sizes and shapes (form factor) .

Most desktop computer motherboard use standard form factor.

Laptop computers generally use highly integrated, miniaturized, and customized motherboards.

Nvidia SLI and ATI Crossfire technology allows 2 or more of the same series graphics cards to be linked together to allow a faster graphics experience.

They both require compatible motherboards.

Motherboard is the main component of computer.

Now modern motherboard have many integrated peripheral.

Motherboard also now have variety of sizes and shapes.

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PREPARED BY : MUHAMMAD TAQIYYUDDIN BIN ZULKIFLI2008-07-0071