Motherboard terms

Updated: 09/07/2019 by Computer Hope

Top 10 motherboard terms
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Full-ATX BIOS USB Expansion slot CMOS Address bus Serial Port System panel cables POST IDE
Number
1394 header
A
ABIOS AC'97 Address bus AGP AMR AT AT Bus AT Keyboard ATX ATX style connector Auxiliary connector
B
Baby AT Back-side bus BAT BIOS BTX Bus
C
Chipset CMOS CNR Communication and Network Riser Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Controller
D
Data bus Daughter board DB-9 DB-15 DB-19 DB-25 DB-37 DB-50 DB connector DTS DTX Dual BIOS DVMT Dynamic Video Memory Technology
E
EFI EIDE EISA ESDI Expansion slot
F
FireWire FlexATX Front-side bus FSB Full AT Full-ATX FWH
G
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H
Hard disk controller HyperTransport
I
IDE IHA Industry Standard Architecture Input/output bus Input/output controller Intel 82371 Internal speaker I/O plate ISA ITX
J
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K
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L
L3 cache Local bus LPX
M
Main board mb MCA Memory bus microATX Mini ATX Mini-ITX Mini PCI Mobile-ITX Motherboard
N
Nano-ITX NLX Northbridge NuBus
O
Onboard
P
P1 P4 P8 connector P9 connector PCI PCIe PCI Express PCI-X Pico-ITX Piggyback board PIIX PIIX3 PIIX4 PIIX5 POST Power On Self-Test PS/2
Q
Quartz crystal
R
Riser card RTC
S
Sandy Bridge Serial Port SIO Slot SMB SMBus Socket Solenoid Southbridge Standout Super I/O System bus System panel cables System panel connectors
T
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U
UEFI USB USB header
V
VESA Local Bus VL Bus VME Bus VRM
W
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X
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Y
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Z
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