What is a Motherboard?
A motherboard is the major, underlying circuit board of a computer. The Central Processing Unit (CPU), Random Access Memory (RAM), and various disk or optical drives are all plugged into interfaces on it. A video interface and sound card can also be built-in or added, and additional connections are used by peripherals and various devices.
How a Motherboard works?
The modern motherboard performs many functions and connects to a wide variety of devices, but the hardware’s most basic role is to connect the system’s microprocessor to the rest of the computer. The central processing unit (CPU). from there, the motherboard receive electrical power from the system’s power.
CPU (Central Processing Unit)
CPU also known as a Central processing unit is the hardware within a computer that executes instructions from a program, the computer can be running on variety of programs at the same time and has to run and execute all of the programs constantly to keep the machine functioning, the speed of a CPU is in gigahertz and that’s billions of cycles per second so this means it can do things really fast, also it can multi task so it doesn’t just focus on one program, it goes to all the programs that you are running at that time and helps it run faster and smoother. Since years have gone past there have been quad core, 8 core and 16 core cpu meaning that these can run extremely fast and execute all the programs at once since it has more cpus to help it out and your computer will run extremely fast without it crashing.
Speed – Gigahertz
Cores – Multitasking
Cache – Fast memory to store highly repetitive instructions
Threads – Managing clock cycles efficiently for multitasking
electric circuit – 7000 per min
5000 times thinner than a piece of hair
Data
tells where to read and write (you can check on your computer how good it is)
high quality videos take 29 million bytes
31 billion every 1 cm2
data stored in 1’s and 0’s
positive and negative magnetic charge
uses ram to store everything at that time
What is RAM?
RAM (Random Access Memory) is a form of computer storage. random access memory allows it to read and write in roughly the same amount of time regardless of the order in which data items are accessed. RAM is used for everything but RAM is very small memory and is only there when it is needed. when to much ram is used it switches to the HDD meaning it will be slow things down.
What is GPU?
GPU (Graphics Processing unit) determines the graphics of all your games depending on what type of graphics care you have. a high quality video takes up to 29 million bytes to load up that video. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and games consoles. without a GPU then you will have no graphics when playing games.
What is HDD?
A hard disk drive is a hardware device that’s used to store information like software and files. The hard disk drive is the main, and usually largest, data storage hardware device in a computer.
The hard drive is sometimes referred to as the “C drive” due to the fact that Microsoft Windows designates the “C” drive letter to the primary division on the primary hard drive in a computer by default.
Most hard drives also have jumper settings on the back end that define how the motherboard is to recognize the drive when more than one is present.
Functions of motherboard 