Mainboards are the core of the computer's structure. The mainboard is where all the components are inserted to make a working computer. The mainboard contains several critical chips and slots for those chips.
Here is what a mainboard looks like. This board was made to fit an AMD K6 chip in a Slot A configuration. Click on it to see an enlarged picture, with the parts labled.
| CPU | Slot Type |
| AMD K6 | |
| AMD K7 | Socket 462 (Socket A) |
| Pentium II | |
| Pentium III | Slot 1 Socket 370 |
| Pentium IV |
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