The motherboard is perhaps the least glamorous part of the personal computer. Video cards and CPUs all have their die-hard partisans and their benchmark bakeoffs, but a motherboard purchase is less ...

The key difference between a desktop computer and a laptop computer is compactness; where a desktop has room for expandable cards and new hardware features, a laptop's hardware must fit into an ...

This article is the second in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part two, click here. The motherboard, sometimes abbreviated “mobo,” is the most basic part of ...

If you are building a PC you can just choose whatever motherboard fits into your case, right? Wrong, there's a lot more to think about. For the first part of this series go here. Anyone who's ever ...

Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...

A computer motherboard's bus speed has no effect on the installed CPU's speed. In a computer, the motherboard and the CPU are two separate components and do not impact the performance of one another.