2010-09-16, 03:02 AM
MOBO (Motherboard) is the actual backbone of your system. It is the board where other pieces of hardware get attached to. Different boards support different "type" of CPUs.
CPU is the primary processing unit for your computer. Think of it as the brain. Your main concern is either to get an Intel one or an AMD one. This choice affects the motherboard you're getting, as the "socket"s are different. This somewhat extends to the CPU heatsink as well if you're going to get one. If you're planning to use a stock heatsink (default ones that come with the CPU), then dont worry about heatsink sockets.
A CPU is essentially a chip. Chip takes spaces. Nowaday, they're quite tiny, and you can have 2/4 chips on the same space previously required for 1 chip. This is what they meant by cores. Dual cores generally mean 2 chips in 1 CPU.
That's my understanding of these terms (which is most likely not technically accurate).
USB sockets generally comes built into the motherboard. Nowaday, there're about 6/8 in each MB at least, so you dont need to worry about not having enough USB sockets.
Also, most motherboards has a builtin sound card which should be decent enough if you're not doing any serious sound works. To save money, I'd suggest you just use the on-board (built into the motherboard) sound card. Personally, I do quite a bit of sound-related stuffs, but I still find the on-board sound card to be sufficient.
CPU is the primary processing unit for your computer. Think of it as the brain. Your main concern is either to get an Intel one or an AMD one. This choice affects the motherboard you're getting, as the "socket"s are different. This somewhat extends to the CPU heatsink as well if you're going to get one. If you're planning to use a stock heatsink (default ones that come with the CPU), then dont worry about heatsink sockets.
A CPU is essentially a chip. Chip takes spaces. Nowaday, they're quite tiny, and you can have 2/4 chips on the same space previously required for 1 chip. This is what they meant by cores. Dual cores generally mean 2 chips in 1 CPU.
That's my understanding of these terms (which is most likely not technically accurate).
USB sockets generally comes built into the motherboard. Nowaday, there're about 6/8 in each MB at least, so you dont need to worry about not having enough USB sockets.
Also, most motherboards has a builtin sound card which should be decent enough if you're not doing any serious sound works. To save money, I'd suggest you just use the on-board (built into the motherboard) sound card. Personally, I do quite a bit of sound-related stuffs, but I still find the on-board sound card to be sufficient.