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Motherboard
Motherboard is another vital part of a PC System that must work in tandem with the right CPU to function properly. It is constantly improving with changes that makes the motherboard a super-computer and has much capabilities than the super-computer of the early 60s.
If the Motherboard is Intel-based then it can only accomodate an Intel CPU likewise for AMD type motherboard which can only housed the AMD CPU chip.
The early days motherboard has many expansion slots to allow Third-Party peripheral cards such as Audio Card, Graphic Card, USB Card, Dialup Modem Card and many others to work along with but as time goes by, many of these commonly required features were embedded and as a result the cost factor has been reduced tremendously.
( Append a Picture of an older days motherboard, Pentium II or III )
Today's components for Graphics, LAN ( Local Area Network ), Audio, USB ( Universal Serial Bus ) are assembled together with the motherboard thus making it smaller in size or shape. The Large Tower casing we saw during the yesteryears has now been obsoleted.
( Append a Picture of a new generation Motherboard )
As the motherboard is getting cheaper day by day, it is natural that anyone can afford to change to a newer PC System in every 2 years. These newer generation motherboard can also cater a bigger memory as such majority of users today make sure that they fit in the maximum allowable memory for their PC sytem during the assembly of their new PCs.
As for a more technical know-how about the Motherboard technologies, you can visit websites that specialise in such topics or wikipedia encyclopedia ( www.wikipedia.org ) for a more detailed explanation on the topic.