Short Answer
Computer Structure and Logic
May 11th, 2016
Professor Martin
Rachel Baldwin
The major concepts of the motherboard include; peripherals, Interface cards, daughter cards: sound cards, video cards, network cards, hard drives, TV tuner cards, cards providing extra USB or FireWire slots and a variety of other components. A peripheral is a device that is used to put information into get information out of the country. The Daughter cards or daughterboard contains plug sockets connectors for other boards to attached to. Daughterboards only have internal connections. Next is the sound cards. The sound cards is an internal computer expansion card. It facilitates economical input of auto signals to and from a computer found under control of a computer programs. Video cards is a type of expansion card this also generates a feed of output images to the display. They are frequently advertised as dedicated graphics cards. Which is a big difference between the integrated graphics. Sometimes video cards are called graphic add- in- boards. Network cards is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network. (Wi-Fi connection) The hard drives is a data storage device used to store and retrieving digital information using one or more rigid(hard) rapidly rotating disks platters coated with megnetic material. TV tuner card is a kind of television that allows TV signals to be retrieved by a computer. Most TV tuners function as video capture cards which allows them to record TV programs onto a hard disk, much like the DVR does. Next is USB, for Universal serial bus is an industry standard. The USB was designed to standardize the connection of the computer peripherals that includes keyboards, pointing devices, digital cameras, prayers, portable media players, this drives in network adapters to personal computers and much more. Finally, the FireWire slots or IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was created by Apple in the 1990s. It was the high definition auto video network alliance known as HANA. The standard connection in your face for A/V called auto/video, component communication and control.
When upgrading a motherboard, yes it would give you some limited performance improvements the memory will become very limited. You should check out what type of processor you have so you know how much memory your processor actually contains. You should check if you have a 32-bit or 64-bit that it has a limited memory slots. In other words each slot has its own maximum memory. To upgrade a 32-bit to a 64-bit you would just need two 32-bit busses to make a 64-bit operating system. Known fact is that updating a 32-bit to 64-bit is very rare.
The need for all the different buses found on a motherboard is to keep the computer running properly. These buses cannot be replaced with the single bus, because it is not fast enough to handle required jobs at the same time and still be sufficient.
Considering a 64-bit buses are available, the reason why a 32-bit should also be provided as well because we need people’s computers run on the 32-bit system. Including the programs on the computer run on a 32-bit system. If you can find I wasn’t offered a 32-bit system you would not be able to upgrade or replace any of the busses at the present time.