IT Essentials: Motherboard Components

What component is circled on the motherboard? 

• RAM slots 
• Expansion slots
• CPU
• Chipset

What is circled on the motherboard image? 

• I/O connectors
• cpu
• BIOS/UEFI chip
• RAM slots

This circled item on the motherboard allows for the addition of adapter cards. 

• Northbridge
• Expansion slots
• Southbridge
• RAM slots

The chipset is made up of two components. What are they? 

• cpu and ram
• network interface card and graphics card
• northbridge and southbridge
• HDMI and USB

What is the highlighted item? 

• CMOS battery
• cpu
• RAM chip
• northbridge

Controls high speed access to the RAM and video card. It also controls the speed at which the CPU communicates with all of the other components in the computer.

• RAM modules
• I/O connectors
• Northbridge
• Expansion slots

Allows the CPU to communicate with slower speed devices including hard drives, Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports, and expansion slots.

• northbridge
• southbridge
• i/o connectors
• cpu

This connector, also known as a P1 connector, powers the motherboard and usually has _______ pins

• 4
• 20 or 24
• 30 or 36
• 8

Motherboard sizes are called _________ and will effect your choice of other components. 

• towers
• form factors
• sizes
• squares

This chip is used to help boot the computer and manage the flow of data between the hard drive, video card, keyboard, mouse, and more. In newer PCs is has been upgraded to UEFI and is often integrated into the motherboard as flash memory. 

• RAM
• CPU
• BIOS
• POST