| motherboard
Every system has one: The motherboard
is the largest printed circuit board in your computer. It generally houses
the CPU chip, the controller circuitry, the bus, and sockets for
additional boards, which are called daughterboards. If you have a
horizontal-style computer, the motherboard is generally the one at the
bottom of the computer's box. If you have a tower-configuration box, it's
along one of the vertical sides. |