WHAT IS A MOTHERBOARD

A motherboard is the physical arrangement in a computer that contains the computer's basic circuitry and components. On the typical motherboard, the circuitry is imprinted or affixed to the surface of a firm planar surface and usually manufactured in a single step. The most common motherboard design in desktop computers today is the AT, based on the IBM AT motherboard. A more recent motherboard specification,ATX improves on the AT design. In both the AT and ATX designs, the computer components included in the motherboard are:

·         The microprocessor

·         (Optionally) coprocessors

·         Memory

·         basic input/output system

·         Expansion slot

·         Interconnecting circuitry

Additional components can be added to a motherboard through its expansion slot. The electronic interface between the motherboard and the smaller boards or cards in the expansion slots is called the bus

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WHAT IS MICRO PROCESSOR

A microprocessor, sometimes called a logic chip, is a computer processor on a microchipThe microprocessor contains all, or most of, the central processing unit (cpu) functions and is the "engine" that goes into motion when you turn your computer on. A microprocessor is designed to perform arithmetic and logic operations that make use of small number-holding areas called registers. Typical microprocessor operations include adding, subtracting, comparing two numbers, and fetching numbers from one area to another. These operations are the result of a set of instructions that are part of the microprocessor design.When your computer is turned on, the microprocessor gets the first instruction from the basic input/output system (bios) that comes with the computer as part of its memory  After that, either the BIOS, or the operating system that BIOS loads into computer memory, or an application progam is "driving" the microprocessor, giving it instructions to perform.

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