Slide 2: A motherboard is a very complex piece of hardware on witch all the other PC hardware components are mounted .

Slide 3: Motherboard elements Slide 4: CPU socket is a mechanical component that provides electrical and mechanical connection between a device (usually a microprocessor) and a printed circuit board. Motherboards are divided according to the processors socket, which is commonly referred to as the existing number of contacts for the processor pins. Slide 5: A chipset refers to a group of integrated circuits manufactured to work together. In most cases, they are manufactured in a single product. There are two chipsets: graphics chipset. The main component of the video card, coordinating the boards activities. motherboard chipset. For the motherboard, the chipset is the main component, greatly influencing motherboars performance by coordinating the essential components of the system. It has two main components, Northbridge and Southbridge, both performing distinct functions. Slide 6: In this slide are the two main components of the socket: at the top is the north bridge. This connects to the following: CPU, memory slots, AGP and PCI Express slot . At the bottom is southbridge with connects : hard drives, network card, USB ports, PCI slots and computer sound card. Slide 7: BIOS (Basic Input Output System) links the physical components and operating system. BIOS performs three basic functions: it inspects all hardware components at startup. Loads the Operating system Links the operating system to the hardware devices Slide 8: AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) is an interconnection for graphics accelerators, used mainly for 3D graphics and playback videos. AGP technology improves system performance by providing a fast way between graphics controller and system memory. AGP is a port, not a bus because a bus can connect multiple devices, while AGP is a connection point to point only between the CPU and video adapter. Slide 9: PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) is an interconnection system between a microprocessor and attached devices in expansion

slots. The PCI ports can connect components such as modems, network cards, video card, sound card, etc. . Slide 10: PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a standardized card expansion intended to replace the old PCI, PCI-X, and AGP standards. PCIe 3.0 is the latest standard for expansion cards, which is available on mainstream PCs. Slide 11: RAM (Random Access Memory ) is the volatile memory of a computer. The data stored in it is lost when the power supply is interrupted. This is not a disadvantage because the function of RAM is to store data when the computer is runnying and therefore not to store data for long periods of time. RAM appears as a small plate ("module") that holds several memory chips. The RAM module is attacked to the motherboard by a Memory interface slot. Slide 12: RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks" or "Redundant Array of Independent Disks", which describes a configuration (array) with multiple disks designed to provide error tolerance and improved data access times . There are three main types of RAID: "mirroring" (= mirror copy of data on multiple disks) "data striping" (interlaced = data splitting on multiple disks) "Error Correction" (with error correction, where additional verification discs store information necessary for detecting and correcting errors). Slide 13: IDE (Intelligent Drive Electronics or Integrated Drive Electronics) is an interface for mass storage devices. The controller is integrated in the disk or CD-ROM.