From the HWCooling Techtour ’24 conference, we have materials that could be useful for educational purposes. Therefore, within this article, we are publishing a breakdown of a CPU and motherboard, the still-relevant materials that were used for printing large-format posters. We no longer have the physical copies—they have been distributed to some schools—but the digital version of these materials is also beneficial.
The images below provide materials detailing a CPU and motherboard—the components they are made of. We primarily created these for the launch of the Intel Z890 platform, which was also the theme of our HWCooling Techtour ’24 conference here in Slovakia. We organized this with Intel and Gigabyte on the occasion of the launch of the “Arrow Lake” processors and Z890 motherboards. The poster below features the one-generation-older Intel Core i9-14900K processor, solely because a lithographic image was not available at the time of preparation. Nevertheless, these materials still provide a good idea of what a processor looks like and what parts it consists of. This doesn’t change much from generation to generation, and capturing these details was the goal.
We also have a detailed breakdown of the individual parts for a motherboard (Z890 Aorus Elite WiFi7). Where does the CPU go, where are the PCI Express slots, and where is the chipset? This and much more is available to you.
In case the images above are not in a sufficiently high resolution, there are also very large images available for download—for the processor (download via this link) and for the motherboard (download here). And if anyone needs these materials in an even higher resolution—for example, for printing—they can write to in**@*******ng.net to request a PDF. We’ll be happy to send it. 🙂
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
