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The motherboard found inside a computer is the most important and essential part that a computer requires in order for the computer to operate correctly in the way the user expects it to. There are many things inside the computer that connects to certain areas on the motherboard like plugs where the various wires are connected to or slots where the the various cards are inserted into there appropriate locations. Most of the cards that are inserted into the motherboard have slots connected to them that are shown in the back of the computer that allow electronic devices outside the computer to be connected to the computer and perform depending on what the computer instructs it to do.
The first card located above the other cards is the video card, also called the graphics accelerator card, display adapter, or graphics card, function is to decide how to use the pixels on the screen to create the image from the information received from the central processing unit and then sends it to the monitor. Beneath the video card is the sound card, also known as the audio card, allows the user to be able to hear sound produced by the computer and output audio signals through speakers which can be connected to the back of the computer into a slot that is part of the audio card. Last is a card where the modem would be connected to, produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data. The are additional slots that allow additional modifications to be done to the computer that the owner would want their computer to perform.
In the Dell computer, the motherboard is located at the bottom-left inside the computer and consists of numerous slots for the various cards to be connected into it. At the top of the picture is the video card, at the left is the sound card, at the right are the memory cards of that are also connected to the motherboard’s slots, and an the bottom is the mode card. The video card, sound card, and the modem card are located at the bottom-left of the motherboard and the memory cards are located at the top-right of the motherboard.
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Very similar to the Del Computer, in the Sony computer, the motherboard is located at the bottom-left inside the computer and consists of numerous slots for the various cards to be connected into it. At the top of the picture is the video card, at the left is the sound card, and at the right are the memory cards of that are also connected to the motherboard’s slots. The video card and sound card are located at the bottom-left of the motherboard and the memory cards are located at the top-left of the motherboard. All computer have very similar parts inside it due to the fact that those parts are important to the operation of the computer when someone uses it.
