Motherboard

The motherboard is the very foundation upon which your computer system is built. It is used as a physical and electronic foundation to interconnect the other components in your computer system. It consists of various sections where different types of hardware can be connected–the processor interface, the RAM slots, the IDE (hard disk/CDROM) connectors, the expansion slots and other integrated peripherals. Integrated peripherals are devices that are directly built into the motherboard to add functionality and to reduce your total system cost. Motherboards are identified according to the types of processors they support, their size and the chipset used in them.