Motherboards

The motherboard or mainboard is the component that connects all the different parts of your computer. Most computer motherboards produced today are designed for IBM-compatible computers. A motherboard, provides the electrical connections by which the other components of the system communicate, but unlike a backplane, it also hosts the central processing unit, and other subsystems and devices. A typical desktop computer has its microprocessor, main memory, and other essential components on the motherboard. Other components such as external storage, controllers for video display and sound, peripheral devices are connected to the motherboard as plug-in cards or via cables, etc.