How Motherboards Work

Speed and storage capacity of computers increases every day, due to the problem processors creating a better processor is made every day and there is no limit to the speed of computers. Ideally, the computer's speed depends on a number of things including Processors Random Access Memory (RAM), and also on the motherboard.

Motherboard

The motherboard is a very complicated circuit board with some components like the BIOS is already installed in it in addition to slots for memory, hardware, PCI, AGP (graphics card) and a slot for the processor. The motherboard connects all the components for the CPU and provide power to all components. It contains within it the bus system that serves as a data transport. A bus system there are 32 or 64-bit.

How motherboard works

The motherboard is the only place for the main components of the components are connected to each other. It works like the nervous system of our body and especially have the ability to transport data of any kind. Connecting a device but as a basic function is to connect the CPU (processor) with other parts of the computer. There are two major bridges on the motherboard that connects the various components including the processor.

chipset

Regional motherboard has two chipsets that connect various components to the motherboard and they called a bridge (Bridge). Named the South Bridge (South Bridge) and North Bridge (North Bridge)

North Bridge

North Bridge is connected to the memory bus, front side bus (FSB), and AGP bus. Memory bus will be connected to memory, front side bus is connected to the CPU or processor and AGP bus will be connected to the graphics card.

South bridge

South Bridge is connected to the ATA bus and PCI bus. ATA bus will be connected to the disk drive that provides a path between the motherboard and disk drives including Compact disk drives (CD-drives) and hard disk drives. PCI bus is connected to a PCI-based hardware and thus provide a path only between PCI devices and motherboard.

For example, when someone pressed the button on the keyboard, say the "A", then this information is sent to the motherboard and forwarded to the processor, the processor will then process the information, and then sends commands to the various components. Graphics card to get the information displays on the computer screen.

Computer speed mainly depends on the processor, but also influence as transoftasi motherboard bus system and transport data. If the bus system is fast then the motherboard will be able to transfer information with higher speed but if you slow the speed of computers will inevitably be affected regardless of processor speed. This is because if the processor can work at higher speeds, but the information is not transferred to the same extent, the computer will work at slow speeds.

Previously, everything including the processor is made separately and must be connected to the motherboard one by one before it can be used. But now, a number of accessories such as LAN, video and voice support is mounted on the motherboard.

The Future of Motherboards

Like other computer components, motherboard size also decreased, some smaller computer chips being made. It is hoped that in future the motherboard that is smaller than the SIM card will be created and the computer speed and mobility will be greatly increased.

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