Inside the motherboard: an analysis of the technologies that underlie PC components

Now almost every home, work or school has its own desktop PC. Someone uses it to prepare tax returns, someone for gaming, and someone collects computers themselves. But how familiar are you with the components inside a PC? Take, for example, a humble motherboard: it sits there, inside, quietly keeps everything in working order and rarely gets as much attention as, say, a processor or video card.





However, motherboards are just as important to a computer's performance - and are equally impressive. Let's see what is inside them, study them, analyze them, decompose them and find out what each bit is responsible for.





So, let's begin

Let's start with what role the motherboard plays in the PC. In fact, it serves to:





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