GROUP ASSIGNMENT

MRS.

BSIT-2106

GALANG

IT105

1. MOTHERBOARD PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

1. Back Panel Connectors & Ports

Connectors and ports for connecting the computer to external devices such as display
ports, audio ports, USB ports, Ethernet ports, PS/2 ports etc. See image below for a
close-up view.

2. PCI Slots
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
Slot for older expansion cards such as sound cards, network cards, connector cards.
See image below for a close-up view.
Have been largely replaced by PCI-Express x1 slots (see motherboard parts #3 below).

3. PCI Express x1 Slots

Slot for modern expansion cards such as sound cards, network cards (Wi-Fi, Ethernet,
Bluetooth), connector cards (USB, FireWire, eSATA) and certain low-end graphics
cards. See image below for a close-up view

4. PCI Express x16 Slot

Slot for discrete graphic cards and high bandwidth devices such as top-end solid state
drives. See image below for a close-up view.

5. Northbridge
Also known as Memory Controller Hub (MCH).
Chipset that allows the CPU to communicate with the RAM and graphics card.
Beginning from Intel Sandy Bridge in 2011, this motherboard component is no longer
present as it has been integrated within the CPU itself.

6. CPU Socket
Cpu socket is where you mount your processor/core.

7. ATX 12V Power Connector

Connects to the 4-pin power cable of a power supply unit which supplies power to the
CPU.

8. Front Panel USB 2.0 Connectors

Connects to USB 2.0 ports at the front or top of a computer case. See image above for
a close-up view.

9. Front Panel Connectors

Connects to the power switch, reset switch, power LED, hard drive LED and front audio
ports of a computer case. See image above for a close-up view.

10. IDE Connector

Connects to older hard drive disks and optical drives for data transfer. See image above
for a close-up view.
Have been replaced over by SATA connectors (see motherboard component #13 below)

11. CMOS Battery

Supplies power to store BIOS settings and keep the real-time clock running. See image
above for a close-up view.
The CMOS battery found on most motherboards is the CR2032 lithium coin cell.

12. Southbridge
Also known as the Input/Output Controller Hub (ICH).
Chipset that allows the CPU to communicate with PCI slots, PCI-Express x 1 slots
(expansion cards), SATA connectors (hard drives, optical drives), USB ports (USB
devices), Ethernet ports and on-board audio.

13. SATA Connectors

Connects to modern hard disk drives, solid state drives and optical drives for data
transfer. See image above for a close-up view.

14. Fan Headers

Supplies power to the CPU heat sink fan and computer case fans. See image above for
a close-up view.

15. RAM Slots

Ram slots is where you mount your ram/memory.

16. ATX Power Connector

Connects to the 24-pin ATX power cable of a power supply unit which supplies power to
the motherboard.

17. mSATA Connector

Connects to a mSATA solid state drive. In most cases, this SSD is used as cache to
speed up hard disk drives, but it's possible to re-purpose it as a regular hard drive.

18. Front Panel USB 3.0 Connector

Connects to USB 3.0 ports at the front or top of the computer case.

19. Power & Reset Button

Onboard button to turn on, turn off and reboot the computer.
This motherboard component is more common among high end boards.

GROUP ASSIGNMENT

BSIT-2106

MRS.

GALANG

IT105

2. COMPUTER PARTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

MOTHERBOARD

Shaped board (board) that has several major electronic individual slots that can be
paired to another board, ranging from the processor, memory, sound card, display
adapter, and so forth. Between the slots on the mother board, there is a special slot for
the installation of the processor, called the socket and slot 1. Socket motherboards have
some kind of different, according to the development of the processor.

Function

- The place to put or attach various components such as processors, memory, sound
card, vga card, etc..
- Media data transfer from the working components inside the computer.
- Set the power at each of the components on the motherboard

POWER SUPPLY

Form a voltage box listirik that attaches to the back of each computer and have the CPU
power cable to be connected to a hardware component that is in the CPU. Power
supply also supplies electrical energy to one or more energy burden.

Function
- Changing the AC voltage into DC
- DC supply voltage to a component that requires the current and voltage on the
motherboard.
- Controlling the electrical current / voltage to stay awake.

PROSSECOR (CPU)

Is a component of the IC chip or a rectangular shape of the brain and the computer
controlling the process performance, with the help of other components. Unit of the
processor speed is the MHz (Mega Hertz) or GHz (1000 Mega Hertz). The larger the
value, the faster the process of execution on the computer

Function
- Place all of the instruction set computer program.
- Managing the performance of all activities on the computer.

RAM

The processor can only store data and instructions in a register that is small so that it
can not store all the information needed for all the programs. To overcome this
processor should be equipped with larger storage capacity, the main memory. Memory
size is indicated by a byte unit.

Funtion
- As a data storage device and the program is temporary, it only works when the
computer live.

HARDDISK

Is the component that contains a rectangular platter or dish that is similar to phonograph
records, head, electronics board, motor, and other components, which are coated or
wrapped by a strong casing.

Function
- One of the computer booting tool..
- Storage media operation system (OS) used on the computer
- All of the data storage medium in a large capacity on a computer

VIDEO ADAPTER OR GPU

Is a computer hardware component that connects the graphics processing equipment

with a monitor output equipment. On the old computer, the graphics processing
performed by the main processor. However, as the development of computer
technology today, has been designed
Video adapter with hardware components has its own processor, called GPU (graphics
processor unit) or the internal memory sehiingga chipset and load the main processor
performance becomes more reduced.

Function
- Port connecting the data processing equipment with a display output device / monitor
- Maximize the function of the screen so it can display graphics in resolution and color
quality is best.
- Can accelerate the performance of all software operation system (Windows)
And 2D and 3D software applications
- Support the use of computers for games that are now widely based on 3D games
software
- Display the best image quality for movie playback types of CD and DVD

SOUND CARD

Is a computer hardware components which form the chipset on the motherboard or card
PCB (printed circuit board) is mounted on a PCI slot on the motherboard, by having four
main components to translate analog and digital.

Function
- Process data in the form of audio or sound.
- A connector audio output to speakers
- As a liaison to the computer voice input through a microphone.

HEATSINK FAN

Cooling equipment is box-shaped or round, made of aluminum material and on it there

is the fan that will spin when the computer is on. Kebbutuhan HSF become a staple in
almost any computer because of computer hardware components inside the casing
using the HSF respectively, from the processor, VGA card, hard drives dn competing to
provide the facility of high quality HSF components in competing in the market.

Function
- Cooling the hardware upon which is placed HSF.
- Processors will not work if there is no heatsink fan on it.
- Absorbing the heat generated by the processor at work and is equipped with a cooling
fan on it so that the processor temperature remains stable.
- Guard air circulation inside the casing.

CASING

Brain is putting a wrapper or processing hardware components that serve to protect the
hardware components from outside interference. In general, often called the CPU
casing.

Function
- Putting a hardware component, such as power supply, motherboard, floppy disk, CDRom, DVD-Rom.
- Sistemkarena performance determinants related to the temperature generated by the
hardware components.
- Proponents of computer display. If the casing has an attractive design, one would be
more pleased and excited to work with the computer.