...Exploring the Motherboard and Busses Exploring the Motherboard and Busses The motherboard represents the logical foundation of the computer. Everything that makes a computer must be attached to the motherboard. Answer the following questions: 1. What are the major components of the motherboard? Provide a brief description of each component. 1. Processor (CPU): The processor is the brain of the computer and is the chip where all the computing is done. 2. Memory: This is where the computer stores information while it is working on it. 3. Chipset: The chipset is a link between the processor and the outside world, and handles things like controlling the hard drives, the USB ports, the keyboard and mouse, generates the sounds the computer makes, and sometimes even creates the pictures you see on the screen. 4. Expansion Slots: Expansion slots are connectors that allow you to attach additional cards on the computer, such as video cards, sound cards, modems, and add abilities to the computer that the motherboard doesn’t provide. 5. I/O (Inputs/ Outputs): These are a set of connectors that allows you to connect various devices to the computer, such as the keyboard, monitor, mouse, hard drives, flash drives, printers, and connect the computer to a network. 2. Upgrading only the motherboard will give some performance improvement to a computer system. Why? Upgrading the motherboard will definitely give performance improvement to any computer system...
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...NT1110 Short Answer 3.1 1/25/15 In this essay I will be describing what the major components of a motherboard are, why upgrading just the motherboard wouldn’t be necessary because it is limited, and deviate the need for different busses on the motherboard with 64bit busses and 32bit. Basically the processor socket is the input socket for the processor, the ddr2 memory slots are for the ram (random access memory), and the heat sink acts as a radiator for the processor on the north bridge, the south bridge chip is the side of the motherboard that manages Legacy, Bios, IDE, ISA, USB, and PCI. The PCI slot is for adapters for optional video input or modems, the CMOS battery remembers the BIOS of the motherboard even when pc is turned off or unplugged, unless it is removed and the board is discharged while everything is unplugged and removed and the power button is held down for a certain amount of time depending on the manufacturer of the product, the port cluster is the I/O(input output) port holes of the motherboard, The SATA host adapter is for high speed connection usually on laptop HDDS but are now on desktops as well, the ATX12 power connector is a cluster of resistors and components that transfer the power prom the external source, and the mounting holes are the holes to mount the motherboard to the tower. Just upgrading the motherboard isn’t going to give you much more performance increases, other hardware is required such as more ram, a faster processor, a more...
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...Exploring the Motherboard and Buses NT1110 What are the major components of the motherboard? Provide a brief description of each component. The major components to the motherboard are the power supply, memory slots, expansion board slots, mass storage, I/O ports, and the CPU. The power supply is used to supply all of the computer with the appropriate power. The memory slots are used for inserting Random Access Memory cards into, to allow memory to be temporarily stored only when power is applied. If power is lost, the memory will be lost. Expansion board slot are used to support adapter cards such as PCI express, AGP, or PCI cards. These slots allow for many different additions onto the motherboard, graphics cards, addition USB ports, LAN cards, etc. Mass storage are simply nothing more than the hard drives and optical drives. The I/O ports are ports that come integrated to the motherboard, which means it cannot be removed. But the ports can be anything from mouse/keyboard hook ups, to integrated Ethernet ports. Finally the Central Processor Unit, CPU, the brain of the computer. This is where the calculations are all done and how fast they can be done is determined by the power of the CPU. Upgrading only the motherboard will give some performance improvement to a computer system. Why would the improvement be limited? The upgrade would be limited because the motherboard is merely nothing more than an information high way but you can direct the motherboard towards a path that...
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...Exploring The Motherboard and Busses Gregory Henry 1136-E2-NT1110 Henderson, David 1. What are the major components of the motherboard? Provide a brief description of each component. The motherboard has a variety of components that make it up. The brains, and most important part is the CPU, or central processing unit. It is where all the calculations of the computer take place. The CPU is generally just one chip, called a microprocessor, which connects via small metallic pins directly to the motherboard. Each CPU contains two components, an ALU, which carries out all the arithmetic and logical operations of the computer, and the CU, which actually gives the computer instructions on how to do tasks and executes them. In terms of computer memory RAM is where data is kept from the operating system and applications so that they can quickly be used by the processor. However, once you turn your computer off all the data is lost. Think of it as short term memory. Long-term memory would be your Hard Drive. The hard drive can come in two forms. An HDD, which uses a rapidly spinning disk coated in magnetic material to store information. It has non-volatile memory, meaning it retains information when powered off. The other kind of hard drive is a Solid State Drive, or SSD. Solid State has significantly higher rates of transfer, better reliability, and lower latency access times. But that premium comes at a price, as SSDs are generally more expensive per bit of storage...
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...Giovanna Oravec NT1110: Computer Structure and Logic Module 3 Short Answer Exploring Motherboard and Busses October 7, 2015 Exploring the Motherboard and Busses The motherboard represents the logical foundation of the computer. Everything that makes a computer must be attached to the motherboard. Answer the following questions: • What are the major components of the motherboard? Provide a brief description of each component. • Upgrading only the motherboard will give some performance improvement to a computer system. Why would the improvement be limited? • What is the need for all the different busses found on a motherboard? Why can these busses not be replaced with a single bus? • With 64-bit busses available, why should 32-bit busses be provided as well? The motherboard of a computer is also known as the System Board. The circuit board is the platform on which all the hardware of the computer is connected. It is said to be the most important part of the computer. The expansion cards, and slots, BIOS chip, CMOS battery, jumpers and DIP switches, heat sink, PCI, Power connector, on board disk drive connectors, memory slots, keyboard connectors, Peripheral ports and connectors are all the things that one may find on the motherboard. The expansion cards are a typical part of nonintegrated system board. An example of this is a graphic card. Memory slots are one of the most important part of the system board. The number of memory chips on a motherboard depends on...
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...Farhana Haque NT1110 4/21/15 Exploring the Motherboard and Busses The motherboard represents the logical foundation of the computer. Everything that makes a computer must be attached to the motherboard. The major components of a motherboard include I/O port cluster, memory slots and expansion slots, and mass storage interfaces. All of these components work together to make the computer run as efficiently as possible. The integrated I/O port cluster can be located in as many as three different places. All motherboards feature a rear port cluster, and many motherboards also have additional ports on the top of the motherboard that are routed to header cables accessible from the front and rear of the system. The most recent motherboard include serial (COM), parallel (LPT), PS/2 mouse, PS/2 keyboard, USB 2.0, Ethernet, audio, FireWire, VGA, and HDMI ports. Integrated ports provide efficiency when it comes to performance and installment, but may provide problems when it comes to repair. Modern motherboards include two or more memory slots. Memory slots vary in design according to the type of memory the system supports. Each memory slot includes locking levers that secure memory in place. Motherboards use expansion slots to provide support for additional I/O devices and high-speed video/graphics cards. The most common expansion slots on recent systems include PCI, AGP, and PCIe. Some systems also feature AMR or CNR slots for specific purposes. Mass storage interfaces include...
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...NT1110 Notes · Unit 4 · motherboards & busses · topics of lecture · system bus · chipset · form factoe · memory slots · expansion slot · System Bus · Traits & necessities · Signal Pathway · A way of passing information betweem componets inside and outside the computer. · A modular way of expanding the functions or capabilities of the computer. · System Bus Architectures · PCI · AGP · PCIe (PCI Express) · Bus Mastering · Allows data to be passed from one device to another without CPU intervention. Allows a controller card to take control of the bus, leaving the CPU free to concentrate on other tasks. · Bus Mastering vs. DMA · DMA can send data from peripheral to RAM or from RAM to peripheral, without the intervention of the CPU. · Bus Mastering can send data from peripheral to peripheral, without the intervention of the CPU. · Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI · Developed for Pentium-class processors · 32-bit and 64-bit data path versions. · 33-MHz Clock · Processor Independant · Plug and play with bus mastering · PCI Evolution · 32-bit, 33 MHz · 64-bit, 33 MHz · 32- bit. 66 MHz · 64- bit, 66 MHz · Accelerated Graphics Port AGP · used exclusively for video carda, · Available in four gernerations (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x) · Considered more of a port than a bus · AGP modes 32-bits @ 66 MHz · data cycles per clock Bandwidth · AGP 1 266 Mbps · AGP 2x 2 ...
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