2. What Is A Motherboard?
ï‚ž Primary Circuit
ï‚ž Connects all core components
3. Why A Motherboard Matters
ï‚ž Allows components to communicate
ï‚ž General-purpose and special-purpose
4. Who Has A Motherboard
ï‚ž Desktop PCs
ï‚ž Notebook PCs
ï‚ž Cell phones
ï‚ž IPods
ï‚ž Servers
ï‚ž Supercomputers
ï‚ž Outside devices to be connected to the
system components
7. Different Size Motherboards
ï‚ž Small ex. netbooks, tablets, or smart
phones
ï‚ž Large ex. Alienware Area-51 ALX
desktop comptuer
8. What is A Bus?
ï‚ž Subsystem
ï‚ž Transfers data
9. Why Does A Bus Matter?
ï‚ž Connects components of computer
system
10. Speed of the Bus
ï‚ž Impact performance of a CPU
11. Front Side Bus
ï‚ž More commonly known as the FSB
ï‚ž Considered the most important bus
ï‚ž Connects the CPU to the northbridge
12. Other Bus’s
ï‚ž Internal Bus
ï‚ž PCI Bus - Connects external devices to
the core system components through
expansion slots, or USB or PCI
connections.
ï‚ž LPC Bus - Connects ROM and
sometimes other input devices to the
CPU.
15. Why This Matters
ï‚ž Provides organized method for the
processor to carry out instructions from
the server.
ï‚ž Without the machine cycle the processor
would not be able to execute software
code.