Motherboard

Motherboard
• The main printed circuit board in a computer is known as the motherboard.
Other names for this central computer unit are system board, main board, or
printed wired board (PWB). The motherboard is sometimes shortened to
Mobo
 Parts of Motherboard
• AGP slot • PCI slots • Parallel port
• Southbridge • DDR memory slot • Serial Port
• Northbridge (w/heat sink) • CPU Fan and heatsink • USB port
• CMOS battery slot mounting points • PS 2 port (mouse and
• IDE connector • CPU socket keyboard)

• 20 pin ATX power • Audio port

connector • LAN port
 Parts of Motherboard
• Southbridge
• Southbridge is an Intel chipset that manages the basic forms of input/output
( I/O ) such as Universal Serial Bus ( USB ), serial , audio, Integrated Drive
Electronics ( IDE ), and Industry Standard Architecture ( ISA ) I/O in a computer.
Southbridge is one of two chipsets that are collectively
called Northbridge /Southbridge. Northbridge controls the processor , memory ,
Peripheral Component Interconnect ( PCI ) bus , Level 2 cache , and all Accelerated
Graphics Port ( AGP ) activities. Unlike Northbridge, Southbridge consists of one
chip, which sits on Northbridge's PCI bus.
 Parts of Motherboard
• Northbridge with heatsink
• 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). Northbridge is one part of a two-
part chipset called Northbridge/Southbridge. Southbridge handles the
input/output (I/O) functions of the chipset
 Parts of Motherboard
• PCI slot
• A Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) slot is a connecting apparatus
for a 32-bit computer bus. These tools are built into the motherboards of
computers and devices in order to allow for the addition of PCI devices like
modems, network hardware or sound and video cards.
 Parts of Motherboard
• AGP slot
• The AGP expansion slot connects AGP video cards to a motherboard.
Video expansion cards are also known as graphic expansion cards. AGP
stands for Accelerated Graphics Port. AGP video cards are capable of a
higher data transfer rate than PCI video cards. Video cards, like the one
shown above, simply plug into an AGP slot and connect a monitor or other
video display device to a computer. The "DVI Out" connector shown in
picture above connects to a digital video display. DVI stands for Digital
Video Interface. Video cards with a TV output connection are capable of
displaying a computer's video on a television. Video cards with a TV input
connection are able of displaying a television's video on a computer. The
AGP card and the monitor are what determine the quality of a computer's
video display
 Parts of Motherboard
• PCIVideo card