Lesson 5: Motherboard

Which body part is the motherboard referred to as? (the motherboard is the ___ of the PC)

• brain

• backbone

• butt

• mouth

What does PCB stand for?

• Printed Circuit Board

• Pressed Circuitry Base

• Parallel Computation Board

• Printed Computer Board

Why are some motherboard lines squiggly?

• Synchronize electrical signals

• Beauty

• Take up space

• Make sure signals arrive at the same time

The software built into the motherboard is called the

• PCB

• BIOS

• MB-OS

• CPU

Entering the BIOS allows you to...

• tweak hardware settings

• start up your operating system

• write programs on your computer

• add new hardware

Which of the following components would fit into a PCI Express x16 slot?

• RAM

• video cards

• CPU

• optical drive

True or False: Any CPU can fit into any CPU Socket

• True

• False

• Maybe

The "16" in PCI Express x16 represents the number of _________?

• gigahertz

• lanes

• slots

• CPUs

Modern motherboard chipsets are a combination of...

• Northbridge + Southbridge

• Northbridge + CPU

• Southbridge + CPU

• CPU + CPU

Why does your motherboard need a battery?

• to keep the computer in standby mode

• to keep the system clock running

• to power the North/South bridge

• As emergency backup power