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Hardware Guide - Identifying your Motherboard
Contributors: Yamadron, Felix

How To Identify Your Motherboard

The motherboard is the large board which all components in your computer are slotteed or plugged in to. All data passes through this network. Be aware that like most items of hardware it has multiple names, like Mainboard or Mobo.

To help us here we will need to run the free and simple to use CPU-Z program. This is the same program used to identify your CPU details here. If you don't have CPU-Z installed yet then grab the tiny file from our Tools page.

Ok let’s run cpuz.exe and take a look at the Motherboard. Once CPU-Z is open navigate to the Mainboard tab.

Below we have included an image to explain the various results you are presented with.
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how to identify your Motherboard image 1

Below we have included an image to better display the conectivity between the various PC components within your computer.
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how to identify your Motherboard image 2


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