Motherboard

alt=A view of a motherboard from an Xbox 360 E console from above.|thumb|The motherboard of a Xbox 360|Microsoft Xbox 360 E console. A motherboard, also known as a mainboard, system board, logic board, and informally mobo (see "Nomenclature" section), is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals.

system that transfers data between components within a computer

thumb|300px|Intel i945GC Northbridge with Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2220 2.40 GHz on an Intel D945GCCR motherboard ()

feature of computer systems

computer communication interface (bus) often used in Intel-chip-based computers during the 1990s and 2000s; replaced by replaced by HyperTransport, Intel QuickPath Interconnect or Direct Media Interface in modern CPUs

support by computer device or bus for automatically discovering of components without manual configuration

class of I/O controller integrated circuits that began to be used on personal computer motherboards in the late 1980s

device that is used to combine several sources of interrupt onto one or more CPU lines, while allowing priority levels to be assigned to its interrupt outputs

small, battery-backed memory component for storing a computer's BIOS settings

system for multiple bus access

family of computer interrupt controllers

Circuit board allowing attachment of expansion cards to a computer system with low profile

high failure rate of electrolytic capacitors produced between 1999 and 2007

thumb|VIA EPIA-N800 (pico-ITX) and VIA EPIA-M800 (mini-ITX) VIA EPIA (VIA Embedded Platform Innovative Architecture) is a series of mini-ITX, em-ITX, nano-ITX, pico-ITX and pico-ITXe motherboards with integrated VIA processors. They are small and consume less power than computers of comparable capabilities.

integrated circuit designed for power management in electronic devices

software needed to operate motherboards

Sam440, also known by Sam or its codename Samantha, is a line of modular motherboards produced by the Italian company ACube Systems Srl. The Sam440ep version is a motherboard based on the PowerPC 440EP system-on-a-chip processor which includes a double-precision FPU. It is made by AMCC. Their primary targets are the industrial and embedded markets, running operating systems such as Linux and AmigaOS 4.

Legacy Plug and Play standard