All the computer components are connected to a square and flat circuit board identified as motherboard. One can think about motherboard as the heart of a computer and the CPU can be looked at as the brain. Common sense board, system board, main board or simply mobo are the other names of system board used by the computer technicians.
Though the motherboard does not boost the speed of a computer, it is a very essential component as all the components are linked together with the help of system board and so it enables the computer to function.
Almost all the pc components (componenti pc) of a computer are immediately plugged to the electrical sockets of the motherboard. Motherboard also contains additional ports for attaching cards like graphics card, network card, audio card etc. It also contains interfaces known as IDE, which is used for hooking up hard drives and optical drives. It also contains plug-ins for connecting external add-ons like monitor, speakers, keyboard, mouse etc.





Sometimes motherboard consist of built in components. Examples are motherboards coming with built in soundcard, network card or graphic card. Such built in cards are useful only for base stage operations. For functions which require a greater stage pc gaming configuration (configurazione pc gaming) is available. Computer mother board contains a plug that accommodates the CPU. Some mother boards can accommodate only some certain type of CPU. So before picking the motherboard one has to make certain whether it will be suitable for the CPU that is proceeding to be linked to it. There are no motherboards, which can support all types of CPUs available in the market now.





All mother board have a basic input/output system that checks the hardware components like power supply unit, hard disk and so forth. for malfunctions, in the event that any. The computer boots up only after completing this original check. BIOS program is the initial program run by the PC when you try to boot a PC. Even gaming computers also boots up only after running the BIOS program.


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