Motherboard – Building
The board consists mainly of the chipset (Northbridge and Southbridge), CPU socket, RAM slots, AGP or PCIe slot, power connector, the BIOS Batterrie and peripheral connections. North and South Bridge would make up the chipset of a motherboard. There are motherboards, the Northbridge and Southbridge combined in a single chip. The trend is, but then again to separate the two from heat reasons. The North Bridge is on the front-side bus with the CPU and continue with the graphics card and the memory connected. It is more powerful than the South Bridge.
Tasks of the South Bridge, it is the periphery, such as keyboard and interfaces to control mice. Can not the chipset of the processor or hard disk data and process information quickly enough, so this has a negative effect on the overall performance, and slows down the flow of information.
Motherboard – The CPU socket or CPU socket
The so-called CPU socket allows the CPU to exchange. Possible reasons for the CPU to exchange, it would be, for example, if your CPU is defective or you want to increase your PC’s performance, the. With the purchase of the CPU caution: Not every CPU will fit on each CPU Socket!
Motherboard – RAM – Slots
On ordinary home computers are usually 2-4 memory slots. When buying a motherboard, make sure that any existing RAM modules are supported by the motherboard. It must be supported and the memory chip to another and the memory clock. Is supported by current motherboards a memory clock of 266/333/400 (PC533/667/800) MHz. Common DDR2 memory modules have a memory of 512 MB or 1024.
Motherboard – AGP / PCIe graphics card slot
The slot for the graphics card is either an AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port) or a newer PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express). The PCIe port should in future replace the AGP port.
This port is operated at a faster rate than the normal PCI slots and is connected to the northbridge of the motherboard directly connected. This results in a faster data transfer. When you buy a graphics card, make sure that this graphics card compatible with the motherboard port.
Motherboard – IDE slots
IDE slots are also known as ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is known. The data transfer takes place in parallel. Pro mainboard has a primary IDE and secondary IDE port. 2 drives per port, this can be operated. In this form, have advocated hard for the home at speeds of 5400 and 7200 rpm (revolutions of the disk on the disk per minute).
The IDE interface was home user range and was most common in the S-ATA (Serial ATA) replaced by. At S-ATA data transfer takes place and allows serial and a higher data throughput.
Motherboard – PCI Slots
The ordinary PCI slots for expanding the system. Possible cards for the PCI bus would be, for example, network cards, sound cards and TV cards. The synchronous PCI bus is operated with 33 or 66 MHz. Because of the higher data transfer rate PCI Express replaces the older standard PCI.
Motherboard – BIOS and battery
The BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) is “hard wired” software does (now not quite), which ensures that the computer knows the start, what are its essential components. The BIOS performs each time a system check, initializes the hardware and starts the operating system.
The battery ensures that CMOS settings will remain even if the PC and thus the power is switched off. The battery has a lifespan of several years. How do you recognize that the BIOS battery is dead? – After switching off the PC date and time settings are lost.
Motherboard – Power Slot
The current slot is for supply to the motherboard and the components, such as CPU power. If you buy the motherboard, make sure that the motherboard and power supply are compatible. The wrong plug on the power supply spoils the fun of assembling a PC quickly.