Definition of motherboard
:the main circuit board especially of a microcomputer
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The build is rounded out by an ASUS Rampage V Edition 10 6900K motherboard, with a massive Nostua NH-D15 heatsink and 32GB of Corsair DDR4 RAM.
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Intel has done this with previous generations of CPUs by unofficially allowing motherboard vendors to support them.
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Note however that USB-C ports are wholly missing, a limitation, says Volta, of the Mini ITX motherboard.
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In the middle, a tangle of Ethernet cables, aquarium gravel, and imitation pearls create a graphic, black-and-white bizarro world reminiscent of the surface of a motherboard.
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As a fail-safe, the motherboard is enclosed in a mesh sleeve that can’t be unscrewed, cracked, or even bored through, thanks to a circuit lining the interior that shatters at the touch of a drill bit.
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A computer’s motherboard is essentially its brains that contain key technologies like a central processing unit (CPU) and memory chips that are necessary for the computer to function.
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Police returned to the business a few days later and seized 22 motherboards from gambling devices, almost $5,000 in cash, keys to the gaming machines and just over a gram of methamphetamine, according to the search warrant.
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Police returned to the business a few days later and seized 22 motherboards from gambling devices, almost $5,000, keys to the gaming machines and just over a gram of methamphetamine, according to the search warrant.
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First Known Use of motherboard
1971
MOTHERBOARD Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of motherboard for English Language Learners
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: the main circuit board of a computer
MOTHERBOARD Defined for Kids
motherboard
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moth·er·board
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Definition of motherboard for Students
:the main circuit board especially of a small computer
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