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