The backbone of modern power supply connectors, that also contains the most pins of any connector.
What is an ATX Power Connector?
A collection of electrical conductors in a motherboard.
What is a bus?
What are Audio Connector ports?
Also known as "Ram slots," this port allows for the installment of more RAM modules.
What is a DIMM port?
The full name of BIOS.
What is Basic Input Output Systems?
A power connector with a flat shape used to connect to storage devices through a serial connection.
What is a SATA connector?
The full name of an industry giant in digital data and power delivery first developed in 1996.
What is a Universal Serial Bus?
A pair of now-uncommon circular ports of different colors not to be confused with a major consoles second iteration.
What is a PS2 port?
This port was the first, common way for someone to install add-on controller cards, but was eventually superseded.
What is a PCI slot?
When a computer starts up after being completely shutdown it is called what?
What is a cold boot?
A four-pin connector put on ice due to the depreciation in use of it's connected device.
What is a Berg connector?
Occasionally confused with USB due to he similar acronym name, the full name of this device is not adequate at describing its PSU saving power.
What is a Universal Power Supply?
An L-shaped motherboard port that connects to storage devices that shares the name of a power supply cord.
What is a SATA Port?
The newest way to install controller cards is in this port. Any smaller size cards can fit in the largest size of this port.
What is a PCIe port?
The most common form factor of a motherboard is this.
What is ATX?
A four-pin connector used to join wires to circuit boards or other wires, not to be confused with a watch brand.
What is a Molex connector?
A microchip in the motherboard that was used to manage connections between buses of different speeds that was phased out of use in 2011.
What is the Northbridge Chipset?
Be careful when disconnecting the associated cable from this motherboard-sidewall port or your internet will be loose because of a broken clip.
What is an Ethernet Port?
Despite PCIe ports often being better than PCI ports, PCI ports may be better than PCIe in some situations because it uses what form of data transfer?
What is Parallel data transfer?
A computer's start check to ensure all systems and components are functioning properly.
What is Power-On-Self-Test?
A PSU cord used to supplement power to high consumption devices, not to be confused with a connector with a possible similar number of pins.
What is a PCI or PCIe power connector?
The first reversible 24-pin USB that has products from USB 2.0 to the USB 4.0.
What is USB Type C?
A pair of ports that transmit information using different forms of data transfer that have a screw connection on either side.
What are Serial and Parallel Ports?
This number is equivalent to the largest size slot of a PCIe port, and is still smaller than the smallest size slot of a PCI port.
What is 16?
This part of a motherboard stores important system information vital to the device.
What is the CMOS?