1.

The Processor Socket

 Socketsare the home for your Central
Processor Unit (CPU). Several types of
socket exist, the Pin Grid Array (PGA)
and the Land Grid Array (LGA).
2. Memory Slots
 Memory slots also call memory banks
are for Random Access Memory
modules (RAM).
3. ATX Power Supply Port
4. CPU Power Supply Port
 The ATX Power Supply Port is uses to
get the electric energy from the
power supply which the motherboard
require to function properly.
 There are 2 ATX Power Supply Port
types for those motherboard parts.
The 20 pins and the 24 pins.
5. AGP
6. PCIe Slot
 The motherboard parts Accelerated
Graphics Port (AGP) and Peripheral
Component Interconnect Express
(PCIe) focus on graphic cards only.
 PCIe standard is even better than AGP
standard, and mostly the only one used
right now.
7. PCI Slots
 PeripheralComponent Interconnect
(PCI) are used to install sound cards,
Ethernet cards and modems.
8. IDE (P-ATA) and S-ATA Ports
 The Parallel Advance Technology
Attachment (P-ATA) interface is used
to connect hard drives and optic
drives. You can attach 2 drives on the
same ribbon, 1 master and the other
slave, and it supports almost all
modern hard drives storage
capacities.
 Modern computer mother boards have
the new interface called Serial Advance
Technology Attachment (S-ATA). It is
faster than the ATA and only 1 device
can be attached to it. The wire is thinner
than his predecessor and surely help at
the cooling process inside the
computer case.
9. Floppy Drive Port
Primary IDE / ATA channel
Primary IDE / ATA channel

Floopy channel
 Plug your "3.5" floppy drive there. Not
really used now, they are going to
disappear completely very soon.
10. Northbridge Chipset
 The Northbridge typically handles
communications among the CPU, in
some cases RAM, and PCI Express (or
AGP) video cards, and the
Southbridge
11. Southbridge Chipset
 The Southbridge typically implements
the "slower" capabilities of the
motherboard in a
Northbridge/Southbridge chipset
computer architecture. In Intel chipset
systems the Southbridge is named
Input/output Controller Hub (ICH).
12. BIOS Chip
 The basic input/output system (BIOS),
also known as the System BIOS or ROM
BIOS
 The primary function of the BIOS is to set
up the hardware and load and start an
operating system. When the PC starts up,
the first job for the BIOS is to initialize
and identify system devices such as the
video display card, keyboard and mouse,
hard disk drive, optical disc drive and
other hardware.
13. CMOS Battery
 The CMOS (Complimentary Metal-
Oxide Semiconductor) is a little bit of
RAM that stores all the BIOS
information so that each time the
computer restarts or powers on, the
computer can remember this
information.
14. PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Port
15. USB (Universal Serial Bus) Ports
16. Serial Ports or Communication Ports
17. Parallel Port or Printer/Scanner Port
18. Audio and Game Port
19. VGA (Video Graphic Accelerator) Port
20. LAN (Local Area Network) Port