Motherboard

The motherboard, also sometimes referred to as the mainboard, is a collection of devices that control the flow of data and operating electricity for all the primary components in a PC - for example, the CPU, memory, graphics adapter and sound card… It is considered to be the “heart” of your PC in the bus-oriented system. It happens to be the circulatory system of your computer, through which the devices communicate. Furthermore, it is a major computer component, to which all other components including memory, CPU, graphics cards and storage devices are attached.

NOTE: Here is a simplified version of the typical inner system in a device.

NOTE: The previous pictures are examples of Motherboards.

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How Motherboards Work

The motherboard contains the processor and other essential hardware needed to run a computer.

Motherboards tie everything in your computer together. Go inside motherboards with diagrams and video and learn about sockets, the CPU and computer.. together -- the motherboard. A motherboard allows all the parts of your computer to receive power and communicate with one another. ­­­

MAC Address

The MAC address is the six byte long hardware address that uniquely identifies a device in the network. It hard-coded onto a chip  by the manufacturer and cannot be manipulated. Every piece of network hardware has a unique identifying number, thus, no two MAC addresses are alike.

NOTE: In the picture above, the MAC address is visible under the bar-code on the device.

NOTE: There is a whole colum of varied MAC Addresses for the diffrent computer systems available.