Motherboards

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Motherboards

Motherboards and cases follow these

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Standardized Form Factors

Question 2

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Common form factors include

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ATX, microATX and Mini-ITX

Question 3

Motherboards

These offer standardized connectors

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Power Supplies.

Question 4

Motherboards

Combine functions from many single-function chips

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Chipsets

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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

Question 6

Motherboards

Modern chipsets feature shoutbridge

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and the CPU hands Northbridge functions.

Question 7

Motherboards

Define RAM capacity, USB capabilities and much more

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Chipsets

Question 8

Motherboards

Provides essential setup information.

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Motherboard manual/book

Question 9

Motherboards

Come with

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Cables,

Standard connectors and more

Question 10

Motherboards

The most common expansion bus that offers multiple lanes

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PCLe

Pickle

Question 11

Motherboards

Cases offer these for mounting various motherboard form factors.

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Standardized standouts

Question 12

Motherboards

More quality cases offer this

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Better cable management.

Question 13

Motherboards

When picking a case choose one that supports the

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Number and type of drives needed.

Question 14

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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Install an

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I/O shield

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triple check

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Standoff positions.

Question 17

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After motherboard is mounted

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Connect motherboard cables.

Question 18

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Consult this if necessary

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Motherboard manual

Question 19

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Form factors in order of size

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ATX
Micro-ATX
ITX
Mini-ITX

AMIM - amimal

Question 20

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These are customized to fit the motherboard I/O area

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I/O shields

Question 21

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

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Standard Dimensions

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These motherboard form factors are 9.6x9.6

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Micro-ATX

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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

Question 24

Motherboard - Quiz

This chip is found on modern motherboards

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South Bridge

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

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CPU

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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

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

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South Bridge

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Motherboard - Quiz Interacts directly with fast hardware including Ram and video cards

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CPU

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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.

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Motherboard - Quiz All of these are found on motherboards

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PCLe slots Voltage regulators Power connectors

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Motherboard - Quiz Cable-connected ports

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Dongles

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Motherboard - Quiz For plugging in RAM and expansion cards

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Slots

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Motherboard - Quiz The I/O shield does NOT connect to the

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Motherboard.

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Motherboard - Quiz The technique of organizing cables inside a case.

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Cable management

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Motherboard - Quiz These are found in chassis to help facilitate cable management

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Pass throughs

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Motherboard - Quiz These do not exist in computer cases.

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Cable bays

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

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Structured cabling

Question 38

Motherboard - Quiz These are placed on the outside of the case

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Front Panel Connections.

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Motherboard - Quiz Power supplies hard drives SSDs

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Found inside the case

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Motherboard - Quiz Tower cases are a type of case

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NOT a component found inside or outside.

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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.

Question 42

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.

Question 43

Motherboard - Quiz Case fans and SATA cables can be installed

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At any time.

Question 44

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.