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what is a motherboard

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motherboard like when she tells that story that I've heard like a hundred

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times about when I was young and crayon up the nose and man I just wish she'd

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stop telling that story that's a joke no where the CPU or

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the central processing unit is colloquially referred to as the brain of

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a PC the motherboard or the main board is often described as the backbone it's

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the component in a PC and for that matter pretty much any other electronic

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device whether it's a game console C device a piece of industrial equipment

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or a cell phone that contains all the slots that everything else goes into all

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right so how do I find it Well that's usually pretty easy because it's the

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largest PCB or printed circuit board inside the device and it's covered in

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slots connectors chips and other electronic dude ads at its very core a

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motherboard is just a bare PCB and contains no actual processing power it

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relies on other processors like the CPU and GPU which are sometimes socketed in

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and at other times soldered on directly to perform all of the actual work and

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give life to your device but that doesn't make it simple motherboard

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designers are tasked not with creating a simple platform onto which everything

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else will be stuck like Lego but rather with crafting an infrastructure for some

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of the fastest and most delicate Electronics imaginable even though the

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majority of the other components used in the system aren't manufactured by the

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motherboard maker they are responsible often for choosing these components for

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their placement and configuration and making sure that every signal will be

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sent where it's needed interpreted correctly then passed to where it needs

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to go and all of this without excess interference even something as seemingly

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trivial as a single trace that's a little bit too long can cause one

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electrical signal to be a little bit late and another a little bit early and

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cause instability that's why you'll sometimes see little zigzag patterns in

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the traces on a PCB those aren't for beauty they're not for looks everything

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about a motherboard is highly functional

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a motherboard also isn't purely Hardware either there's a software or firmware

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component on a PC this is referred to as a BIOS or UEFI and is often the

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difference between a good motherboard and a great motherboard this software

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acts as a way for the manufacturer to correct small bugs that are inevitable

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with something so complex and to add functionality in the future it also

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serves as a way for the user to alter settings or tweak them for optimal

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functionality on consumer electronics this software component also exists but

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it's normally not user accessible all right so what if my motherboard dies

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which might even be while you're sitting here watching this video well for consumer electronics and phones and

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whatnot you're often hooped if you can find a new one there are often extremely

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fragile cables and connectors attached to them and if you can't find a detailed

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guide on a site like I fix it for example I would recommend leaving it to

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the pros for a PC life is a bit simpler many PCS use industry standard

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components including the motherboard but many others use proprietary and

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expensive Alternatives so the only way to find out for sure is to contact your

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manufacturer directly but there's a good chance that you'll be able to get your

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hands on something once you've got a new one replacing a PC motherboard is in

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many cases not difficult but it can be

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timec consuming and tedious and will usually involve removing pretty much

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every other component in the system in order to extract it and replace it the

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good news is you can check out one of the excellent PC build guides on my

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other channel and that'll tell you pretty much everything you need to know about installing a motherboard any other

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