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Small Details on Motherboards

In order to face competition more and more motherboard manufacturers are adding extra small features to their motherboards, such as fancy boxes, diagnostics display, two BIOS chips, etc. Take a look at what you can find today as small extra features.

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Rounded Cables and Conclusion

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Diagnostics Display
  • 3. Two BIOS Chips
  • 4. Cooling
  • 5. Cooling (Cont'd)
  • 6. Cooling (Cont'd)
  • 7. Dual Voltage Regulator
  • 8. On-Board Audio Connectors
  • 9. Rounded Cables and Conclusion

There are a lot of manufacturers shipping their motherboards with rounded cables. This kind of cable helps the computer internal cooling since it takes less space inside the computer case.

IDE Round CableFigure 21: Rounded cables.

Conclusion

Our intention in this tutorial was to show you that the main motherboard manufacturers are investing a lot on extra features and to give you an overall idea of neat extra features you can find today. There is a lot of other nice features manufacturers are adding to their products we didn’t mention, like front panels for you computer case with a lot of connectors, memory card readers, earphones, screwdrivers, remote controls and a lot more.

At the end, all consumers get better products. That’s the nice thing about competition.

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