Motherboard

Motherboard

          The motherboard is easily the most important part of the computer. Although there are a number of components that a PC cannot function without, it's the motherboard that ties them all together and turns them into a personal computer. The motherboard, or main boards, of a PC is a large printed circuit board that is home to many of the most essential parts of the computer, including the microprocessor, chipset, cache, memory sockets, expansion bus, parallel and serial arts, mouse and keyboard connectors, and IDE, EIDE, or SCSI controllers, among other components of the PC. The motherboard binds the PC's operational components together.

           

          There is a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and types of motherboards available. There is at least one motherboard design from at least one manufacturer to fit just about every PC still running. Manufacturers attempt to set their motherboards apart from the others and to increase their value by incorporating more or fewer controllers, expansion buses, boards, this  is to your benefit because there is a very wide range of motherboards with a long list of features that will fit into an even wider range fo PCs. This wide range of selection is also the bad news. If you don't do your homework before buying a new motherboard, you can end up with lower quality components than you may desire. In most situations, a motherboard is just something that comes with the computer. More often than not, a completely new PC is purchased instead of the motherboard being upgraded.