Learn About a Motherboard

Motherboard is another one of those weird computer terms that may seem to have no definable etymology. However, the term makes a lot of sense once it's been explained. Your house is built on a foundation. The foundation supports everything else that goes into the house. Electrical, plumbing and more. Think of the motherboard as the foundation of your personal computer.

butterscotch TUTORIAL What is a "motherboard?" Michael Callahan: Hi, this is Mike Callahan, "Doctor File Finder," and welcome to your butterscotch.com tutorial on what is a motherboard. This is picture of a motherboard; motherboard is basically the foundation that your computer is built on. There is right here is the socket or your Central Processing Unit or CPU gets plugged in, these are expansion slots where you can put in cards that will give your computer other functions. The very early motherboards and here is one from Commodore from 1982 the same year the personal computer was released by IBM. Motherboards they printed circuit board so you can see the printed circuits on it and see some little chips. Here is a process you needed over here, but it's really very simple and the early motherboards you had to install all of the facilities for peripherals like floppy disc, hard disc and everything else sound, graphics. If you look at motherboard from just 10 years later in 1992, you can see that there is a lot more going on here. There is more capacitors and resistors, more chips, bigger processor. The thing is that today's motherboards take out a whole range of functions by providing the sound, the graphics, the drivers for the hard drive, floppy drive, DVD drives and lots more. So the motherboard of a computer is the basis the foundation and everything outs that goes into what makes up your computer rests and it's installed on that motherboard. So that's a motherboard and that's all there is to it. Butterscotch tasty tech, delicious downloads butterscotch.com a division of Tucows.