Introduction to Motherboard

Motherboard is a central circuit board, main board inside the PC and the logic board in the Apple Computer. It is the main component inside the computer. Most of the computer devices such as RAM, hard disk, CD-ROM, Sound card, Video card, LAN controllers, sockets, expansion slots, BIOS and the peripheral devices are directly connected with it. 

It also contains different chips that are collectively known as chipsets. It also contains the printed circuit board that is also known as PCB. There are different slots for the different cards like LAN card, Sound card and VGA card.   There are usually two types of the expansion slots that are known as PCI and ISA.

Most of the motherboards support the built-in VGA, Sound and LAN cards so there is no need to insert them separately.  Most of the main boards are manufactured for the IBM compatible computers and they also contain the connectors for attaching the additional main boards. They are often air cooled and supplied with the fan and heat sinks, which absorbs the heat inside the computer. It also holds the processor like Intel, Intel Celeron and AMD. 

Before choosing the motherboard you need to make sure that there are no compatibility issues with the other hardware inside your computer.  The most commonly used architecture is the ATX.  Intel, ASUS, MSI, DFI and the Gigabyte are the main manufacturers.  Latest motherboard provides the features like PCI slots, IDE interfaces, USB ports and AGP slots.