Motherboard

A motherboard, also known as a mainboard, system board, logic board, and informally mobo, is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose 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 (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals.

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