How Motherboards Are Made

Techno-consumerist writes "Ever wonder how motherboards are made? How all those little electronic bits and pieces are put in place, and how each board is tested? PCstats takes a look behind the scenes of the Nan-Ping Gigabyte factory in Taiwan, and documents the amazingly complicated process from start to finish. Very cool, but surprising about how much labour goes into each board."

Comments

Did any of the articles mention

[syntap]

the phone numbers of the girls testing the boards at the factory in Testing Stage 2?

Re:Did any of the articles mention

[digitalchinky]

Mmmm, nothing like that new motherboard smell, fresh out of the silver anti-static bag... Hot asian taiwanese chick writing on the little green 'QC OK' sticker...

If only motherboards were as soft and good looking as the testers, complete with dual breast cards as a standard option...

(In real life I'm not that much of a deprived geek, I am living in asia though)

I always thought....

[O-SUSHi]

Aren't they made when a motherboard has sex with a fatherboard and have another(mother)board?

Where are the fatherboards?

[Bongoots]

From my understanding, motherboards can have daughterboards.. but where are the fatherboards?

Illegitimacy seems rife in the computing world! o_O

Re:Where are the fatherboards?

[mysticwhiskey]

My guess is that the fatherboards refuse to perform garbage collection, misinterpret the communication protocol with the motherboard, and are constantly scolded for eyeing off the newer models of GPU's.

Thus they are kept in solitary confinement far from the eyes of the public and are used only to pump out offspring. It's solely for the XY86 chromosome, I'm sure.

Nice poster

[Anonymous Writer]

Check out that "fine motivational strategy" sign on page 10...

Be more responsible
Complain less
Be more attentive
Make lesser mistakes

Yay. I feel so motivated just reading it.

must be the same guy.

[the_mind_]

The Guy that made the sign on the airshower door must be that same guy that translates the manuals that comes with the motherboards.
"Please Push and Pull the Door Tenderly" :-)

Re:PCB

[imroy]

Wow! And all this time I thought it was referring to Polychlorinated biphenyl. Man, they really cleared that up for me!

check

[tofucubes]

Are you sure it isn't being made by Oompa-Loompas?(the foreign race of people who are happy to work for basically nothing in a closed-off factory far from inspectors)

Re:You don't need their phone number - just use an

[a16]

If you ever been to Taiwan you'd know most girls there look absolutely great (it's not only me noticing this). I don't know how did they achieve it.

How do you know he's interested in their looks? This is slashdot - he probably just wants a free motherboard ;)

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Not in the US. Two MOTHERboards ?!? Sanctity of marriage !!!

Stress Tested

[Paska]

Each system is run through several hundred loops of 3D Mark 2001 in 40C temperatures. This tests stability under the most grueling of conditions.

Now I know why I've never had much luck with Gigabyte boards, they arn't tested to Australian climates, they really need to test these things in 50+C temperatures as you can bet my room in Australia gets that high in summer.

Re:Stress Tested

[Dogtanian]

Now I know why I've never had much luck with Gigabyte boards, they arn't tested to Australian climates

Actually, I think you'll find your problem is that Gigabyte motherboards aren't designed to work upside-down.

Re:PCB

[Rhinobird]

This one time my friend did some PCB and he started kicking the crap out of his computer, while screaming something about deamon windows or something...wait...are we talking about the same thing?

Their website....

[cokemaster]

must be hosted on a half complete motherboard... their website is very slow.

Re:PCB

[shirai]

If you have a chance, you should check out the link above on the definition of woman. It is unintentionally funny.

No respect I tell ya. Here are some (admittedly selective) excerpts:

• "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
  
• charwoman: a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet"
  
• a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman"
  
• was "taken out of man" (Gen. 2:23), and therefore the man has the preeminence. "The head of the woman is the man;" but yet honour is to be shown to the wife, "as unto the weaker vessel"
  
• but one sure-fire way to remember this word is to think of basketball player Kobe Bryant, who is the guaranteed epitome of feminine
  

I like the definition that includes "mistress" then, for an example sentence, says "he was faithful to his woman." I can count at least three things ironic/funny about just that one definition. :)

All that work but....

[Bootard]

They can't even hire someone who speaks english well to translate the manual. The last couple of motherboards I've bought have been Gigabytes. They work ok, but the manual that comes with them is one of the worst translated things ever. Here's just on of MANY gems:

Have you ever updated BIOS by yourself? Or like many other people, you just know what BIOS is, but always hesitate to update it? Because you think updating newest BIOS is unnecessary and actually you don't know how to update it.
Maybe not like others, you are very experienced in BIOS updating and spend quite a lot of time to do it. But of course you don't like to do it too much. First, download different BIOS from website and then switch the operating system to DOS mode. Secondly, use different flash utility to update BIOS. The above process is not a interesting job.

Being the Gigabyte factory

[Trogre]

We must remember to include plenty of JPCON and GSC capacitors to get that healthy swell and electrolyte ooze after a year or so.