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Motherboards Flashcards

1
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Motherboards

Motherboards and cases follow these

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Standardized Form Factors

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2
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Motherboards

Common form factors include

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ATX, microATX and Mini-ITX

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3
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Motherboards

These offer standardized connectors

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Power Supplies.

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4
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Motherboards

Combine functions from many single-function chips

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Chipsets

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5
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Motherboards

Early chipsets offered two separate chips. - Hatfields and McOys

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Northbridge: handled fast stuff

Southbridge: handled slow stuff

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6
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Motherboards

Modern chipsets feature shoutbridge

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and the CPU hands Northbridge functions.

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7
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Motherboards

Define RAM capacity, USB capabilities and much more

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Chipsets

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8
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Motherboards

Provides essential setup information.

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Motherboard manual/book

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9
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Motherboards

Come with

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Cables,

Standard connectors and more

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10
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Motherboards

The most common expansion bus that offers multiple lanes

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PCLe

Pickle

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11
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Motherboards

Cases offer these for mounting various motherboard form factors.

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Standardized standouts

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12
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Motherboards

More quality cases offer this

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Better cable management.

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13
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Motherboards

When picking a case choose one that supports the

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Number and type of drives needed.

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14
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Motherboard

You should do this with CPU and RAM before installing it in your case

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Test it

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15
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Motherboard

Install an

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I/O shield

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16
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Motherboard

triple check

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Standoff positions.

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17
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Motherboard

After motherboard is mounted

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Connect motherboard cables.

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18
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Motherboard

Consult this if necessary

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Motherboard manual

19
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Motherboard - Quiz

Form factors in order of size

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ATX
Micro-ATX
ITX
Mini-ITX

AMIM - amimal

20
Q

Motherboard - Quiz

These are customized to fit the motherboard I/O area

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I/O shields

21
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Motherboard - Quiz

I/O shields have these to fit standard form factor cases

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Standard Dimensions

22
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Motherboard - Quiz

These motherboard form factors are 9.6x9.6

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Micro-ATX

23
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Motherboard - Quiz

Different motherboards have different I/O ports so it is “ “ to create a one-size fist all I/O shield for different motherboards

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Impossible

24
Q

Motherboard - Quiz

This chip is found on modern motherboards

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South Bridge

25
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Motherboard - Quiz

The old North Bridge functionality has been moved here on modern motherboards

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CPU

26
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Motherboard - Quiz

CMOS is mounted on the motherboard BUT it is not a chip it is a

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Battery

27
Q

Motherboard - Quiz

Interfaces slow hardware such as hard drives and keyboards to the CPU

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South Bridge

28
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Motherboard - Quiz

Interacts directly with fast hardware including Ram and video cards

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CPU

29
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Motherboard - Quiz

These attach to connectors on the motherboard but are not actually part of the motherboard

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SATA cables.

30
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Motherboard - Quiz

All of these are found on motherboards

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PCLe slots
Voltage regulators
Power connectors

31
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Motherboard - Quiz

Cable-connected ports

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Dongles

32
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Motherboard - Quiz

For plugging in RAM and expansion cards

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Slots

33
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Motherboard - Quiz

The I/O shield does NOT connect to the

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Motherboard.

34
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Motherboard - Quiz

The technique of organizing cables inside a case.

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Cable management

35
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Motherboard - Quiz

These are found in chassis to help facilitate cable management

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Pass throughs

36
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Motherboard - Quiz

These do not exist in computer cases.

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Cable bays

37
Q

Motherboard - Quiz

Describes the organization of large, well-designed network cabling installations.

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Structured cabling

38
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Motherboard - Quiz

These are placed on the outside of the case

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Front Panel Connections.

39
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Motherboard - Quiz

Power supplies
hard drives
SSDs

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Found inside the case

40
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Motherboard - Quiz

Tower cases are a type of case

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NOT a component found inside or outside.

41
Q

Motherboard - Quiz

What is the best thing to do before mounting the motherboard in the case

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Test the motherboard with a CPU and RAM installed.

42
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Motherboard - Quiz

This must be installed before the motherboard is installed

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I/O Shield because it wont fit after the board is placed in the case.

43
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Motherboard - Quiz

Case fans and SATA cables can be installed

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At any time.

44
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Motherboard - Quiz

Installing a video card into the motherboard before mounting it in a case

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May make it challenging or impossible to install the motherboard in the case.

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