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A motherboard is a quintessential part of any electronic equipment. Be it a smartphone, laptops, computer, or even as small as an electrical toothbrush. The size of the motherboard varies from device ...

You should also pay attention to the PCI Express connection–at least PCIe 3.0, preferably PCIe 4.0 or 5.0–and the M.2 form ...

The key difference between a desktop computer and a laptop computer is compactness; where a desktop has room for expandable cards and new hardware features, a laptop's hardware must fit into an ...

The CPU may be the brain of a computer, but by itself it has no way to interact with the PC's other components—it needs a nervous system. That would be the motherboard. In many ways, it's little more ...

There's nobody quite like Mom and when it comes to performance desktop computers or business class workhorse machines, motherboards are always what bring the computing family together. Motherboards ...

Back in February 2005, I wrote an article for the Linux Journal Web site about re-mastering Knoppix. In that article, I noted that everything passed to/from a support box. During this process, I found ...