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  2. CPU socket - Wikipedia

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    CPU sockets are used on the motherboard in desktop and server computers. Because they allow easy swapping of components, they are also used for prototyping new circuits. Laptops typically use surface-mount CPUs, which take up less space on the motherboard than a socketed part.

  3. Motherboard form factor - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of some common motherboard form factors (pen for scale) A PC motherboard is the main circuit board within a typical desktop computer, laptop or server. Its main functions are as follows: To serve as a central backbone to which all other modular parts such as CPU, RAM, and hard drives can be attached as required to create a computer

  4. Super I/O - Wikipedia

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    ITE Super I/O chip (IT8712F) SMSC™ (now Microchip) Super I/O chip (FDC37M813) on IBM motherboard Super I/O (sometimes Multi-IO) [ 1 ] is a class of I/O controller integrated circuits that began to be used on personal computer motherboards in the late 1980s, originally as add-in cards , later embedded on the motherboards.

  5. Motherboard - Wikipedia

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    Dell Precision T3600 System Motherboard, used in professional CAD Workstations. Manufactured in 2012. A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, MB, mobo, base board, system board, or, in Apple computers, logic board) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems.

  6. Southbridge (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Motherboard diagram, created in 2007, which supports many on-board peripheral functions as well as several expansion slots. The functionality found in a contemporary southbridge includes: [8] [2] PCI bus. A south bridge may also include support for PCI-X. Low speed PCI Express (PCIe) interfaces usually for Ethernet and NVMe. ISA bus or LPC ...

  7. ATX - Wikipedia

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    An ATX power supply provides a number of peripheral power connectors and (in modern systems) two connectors for the motherboard: an 8-pin (or 4+4-pin) auxiliary connector providing additional power to the CPU and a main 24-pin power supply connector, an extension of the original 20-pin version. 20-pin Molex 39-29-9202 at the motherboard. 20-pin ...

  8. Reference designator - Wikipedia

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    Connectors on this cable would be designated: 1A1W35P1; 1A1W35P2; ASME Y14.44-2008 continues the convention of Plug P and Jack J when assigning references for electrical connectors in assemblies where a J (or jack) is the more fixed and P (or plug) is the less fixed of a connector pair, without regard to the gender of the connector contacts.

  9. Power supply unit (computer) - Wikipedia

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    ATX motherboard power connector (usually called P1): This is the connector that goes to the motherboard to provide it with power. The connector has 20 or 24 pins. One of the pins belongs to the PS-ON wire (it is usually green). This connector is the largest of all the connectors. In older AT power supplies, this connector was split in two: P8 ...