Motherboard

Motherboard is the main circuit board of a microcomputer. The motherboard contains the connectors for attaching additional component/part. Usually, the motherboard contains the socket for CPU (central processing unit/ processor), BIOS, the slots for memory, the header for storage interfaces(hard disk), northbridge chipset , southbridge chipset, back panel connector, expansion slots ( AGP slot, PCI slot, PCI Express slot, and all the controllers that required to control standard peripheral devices, such as the display screen, and keyboard.


On most PCs, it's possible to add memory directly to the motherboard. You able to upgrade your latest computer to a faster PC by replacing the CPU and GPU(Graphic processing unit/ graphic card). To change the CPU, you may also to take a look on the socket which it's compatible or not.

Motherboard is sometimes can be called as mobo.

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