Expansion Slots
Slots often labeled DDR-x, and are colored indicating matched pairs?
What are RAM Expansion Slots?
This is the most common desktop motherboard form.
What is ATX?
This is what RAM stands for.
What is Random Access Memory?
This is the device that allows a PC to 'remember' the date, time and other settings while the power is off.
What is CMOS battery?
PCIe is short for this.
What is PCI Express?
This is a smaller version of the ATX motherboard.
What is MicroATX?
The type of CPU that has pins which insert into the CPU socket.
What is a PGA CPU?
(Pin Grid Array)
This is what DDR stands for.
What is Double Data Rate?
These are the multicolored pin sockets on a motherboard that connect to the front panel of the PC case.
What are FPC or Front Panel Connectors?
This is an expansion slot that preceded PCIe and supports legacy expansion cards.
What is PCI?
This is a miniature/small/compact series of motherboards designed for mobile devices?
What is ITX?
What is assists the CPU in working with memory, expansion cards, and onboard peripherals.
This is what a Chipset does.
(Northbridge and Southbride are components of a Chipset)
This is what SIMM stands for.
What is Single In-line Memory Module?
This is the number of PINS in an ATX power supply connection to the motherboard.
What is 20+4?
White 3 or 4 pin connectors on a motherboard.
What are fan connectors?
Standard mounting points and similar layout.
ATX and microATX motherboards have this in common.
This is what the term LEGACY actually means.
What is OLD?
Hard drive interface connections in modern computers are called this.
What is SATA?
This is the most important component of a computer that contains all the pathways to connect the CPU to memory and expansion boards.
What is the motherboard/mainboard?
These are the two major manufacturers of CPUs.
What are Intel and AMD?
This is a type of RAM designed for laptops, and mobile devices.
What is SO-DIMM?
This is the first software run when your computer boots, before passing off to the Operating System.
What is the BIOS or UEFI?