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  2. Motherboard form factor - Wikipedia

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    Also known as Full AT, it was popular during the era of the Intel 80386 microprocessor. Superseded by ATX. Baby-AT: IBM: 1985 216 × 254–330 mm (8.5 × 10–13 in) IBM's 1985 successor to the AT motherboard. Functionally equivalent to the AT, it became popular due to its significantly smaller size. ATX: Intel: 1995 305 × 244 mm (12 × 9.6 in)

  3. AT (form factor) - Wikipedia

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    Baby AT motherboard An ATX Form Card, used by later Baby-AT motherboards to allow for USB, PS/2 mouse, and IR connectivity through headers. In 1987, the Baby AT form factor was introduced, based on the motherboard found in the IBM PC/XT 286 (5162) [2] and soon after all computer makers abandoned AT for the cheaper and smaller Baby AT form factor, using it for computers that spanned several ...

  4. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    The motherboard BIOS scans for extension ROMs in a portion of the "upper memory area" (the part of the x86 real-mode address space at and above address 0xA0000) and runs each ROM found, in order. To discover memory-mapped option ROMs, a BIOS implementation scans the real-mode address space from 0x0C0000 to 0x0F0000 on 2 KB (2,048 bytes ...

  5. ATX - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, Foxconn unveiled a Foxconn F1 motherboard prototype, which has the same width as a standard ATX motherboard, but an extended 14.4" length to accommodate 10 slots. [10] The firm called the new 14.4 × 9.6 in (366 × 244 mm) design of this motherboard "Ultra ATX" [11] in its CES 2008 showing.

  6. Asus - Wikipedia

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    ASUS Republic of Gamers logo An ASUS promotional model presenting ROG products. ASUS Republic of Gamers (ASUS ROG) is a brand used by ASUS since 2006, encompassing a range of computer hardware, personal computers, peripherals, and accessories. AMD graphics cards were marketed under the Arez brand due to the Nvidia's GeForce Partner Program. [56]

  7. microATX - Wikipedia

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    The mounting points of microATX motherboards are a subset of those used on full-size ATX boards, and the I/O panel is identical. Thus, microATX motherboards can be used in full-size ATX cases. Furthermore, most microATX motherboards generally use the same power connectors as ATX motherboards, [ a ] thus permitting the use of full-size ATX power ...

  8. Jumper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In electronics and particularly computing, a jumper is a short length of conductor used to close, open or bypass part of an electronic circuit. They are typically used to set up or configure printed circuit boards, such as the motherboards of computers. The process of setting a jumper is often called strapping. [citation needed]

  9. Motherboard - Wikipedia

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    Dell Precision T3600 System Motherboard, used in professional CAD Workstations. Manufactured in 2012. A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, MB, mobo, base board, system board, or, in Apple computers, logic board) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems.