Onboard?

[Jungmamr]

Maybe I have been living underneath a rock for a while, but what does all this "onboard" talk mean?

Matt

[Telexen]

component comes built into the motherboard, so you don't need a card for it...such as video (though it's never that great), audio, and network...plus all the old stuff like usb

[Jungmamr]

So does it take up more physical space on the motherboard? Is it easy to disable? How much more extra does it cost?

[VHockey86]

Means the capability is built into the motherboard rather than being a seperate piece of hardware.

For example, "onboard LAN" means the NIC chipset is built into the motherboard and there is an RJ-45 JAck on the back of the motherboard.

Other typical "onboard" devices are Video cards (for cheaper models) and sound

----edit------- I guess I typed too slow =), oh well, little redundancy never killed ne1

[Telexen]

for most things the "onboard" stuff is built into the southbridge, so it's incorporated into the chipset already.

You can enable/disable stuff in the BIOS.