Research: Motherboard [Day 26/27]

The motherboard, known by many names such as mainboard or mobo, is the main printed circuit board(PCB) of PC and other expandable systems. What the motherboard is capable of is that it holds all the crucial electronic components of the system such as the CPU or RAM and provides connectors for peripherals(Ex: Mouse, Keyboard, etc.). Components like the external storage, video display and sound, and other peripheral devices may be attached to the mobo by plug-in cards or via cables. The motherboard utilizes an electrolytic capacitor to filter the DC power that's distributed around the board. It's lifetime can be approximately 15 years(for 45°C) depending on the temperature the capacitors are exposed to. Most mobo are designed to use BIOS(Basic Input/Output System), which is stored in the EEPROM chip or socketed in the motherboard to boot up the operating system(OS).