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1
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Flat piece of circuit board that resides inside your computer case and had a number of connectors on it

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Motherboard

2
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Small electrical connections embedded in a circuit board

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Traces

3
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Popular motherboard form factor that generally replaced the AT form factor

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ATX (Advanced Technology Extended)

4
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Variation of the ATX form factor, which uses the ATX power supply. Generally smaller than ATX but retain all the same functionality

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MicroATX

5
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A family of motherboard form factors

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ITX

6
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Largest and the most popular of the ITX form factor but is still quite small

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Mini-ITX

7
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Special adapter card, usually inserted into a special slot on a motherboard, that changes the orientation of the expansion cards relative to the motherboard. Used extensively in slimline computers to keep total depth and height of the system to a minimum

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Riser cards or daughter boards

8
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Method for creating a fault-tolerant storage system. Uses multiple hard drives in various configurations to offer differing levels of speed/data redundancy

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RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks)

9
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Set of wires going to the CPU, governed by the expansion bus crystal, directly connected to expansion slots of varying types (PCI, AGO, PCIe, etc.)

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Expansion bus

10
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Connectors on a motherboard that enable users to add optional components to a system

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Expansion slots

11
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Controls the speed of the expansion bus

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Expansion bus crystal

12
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Design architecture for the expansion bus on the computer motherboard that enabled system components to be added to the computer. Used parallel communication. Local bus standard, meaning that devices added to a computer through this port used the motherboard’s full speed (up to 33 MHz) rather than at the slower 8-MHz speed of the regular bus. Moved data 32 or 64 bits at a time rather than 8 or 16 bits the older ISA buses supported

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PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)

13
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Specialized form of PCI designed for laptops

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Mini-PCI

14
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Serialized successor to PCI and AGP that uses the concept of individual data paths called lanes. May use any number of lanes, although a single line (x1) and 16 lanes (x16) are the most common on motherboards

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PCI Express (PCIe)

15
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The number of operations happening per second

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Transfer rate

16
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The way the data is broken down and reassembled

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Encoding scheme

17
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Specialized form of PCIe designed for laptops

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Mini-PCIe