MOTHERBOARD

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•                VOCABULARY motherboard - płyta główna

1. Motherboard is the main printed circuit board found in computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit an memory and provides connectors for other peripherals.

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   •              EXPLANATION  printed circuit board -mechanically supports and electrically connects electronic components using conductive tracks, pads and other features etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate.      
   •                   VOCABULARY printed circuit board - obwód drukowany peripherials - peryferyjne electronic components - części elektroniczne conductive tracks - ścieżki przewodzące pads - klocki copper sheets - miedziane blachy non-conductive substrate - nieprzewodzące podłoże 
2. Typically, the motherboard contains

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   •               VOCABULARY memory - pamięć processor - procesor slots - gniazda controllers - sterowniki expansion slots - gniazda na karty rozszerzeń video card - karta graficzna sound card - karta dźwiękowa hard drivers - dyski twarde peripheral devices - urządzenia peryferyjne self-testing - samotestowanie  connectors - złącze
   1. CPU slot (Processor slot)
   2. BIOS (a program for self-testing)
   3. Connectors for hard drives
   4. Expansion slots (e.g. for video card, sound card)
   5. Power connectors
   6. Slots into which the system's main memory is to be installed
   7. Controllers required to control standard peripheral devices
3. Type of motherboards