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Determining What's Good
- Thread starter musashia
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There are a good number of "good" boards coming from "good manufacturers" of course. Once you go with a good brand you choose the board for the type of build you are planning by looking mainly at the specifications to see what hardwares it supports as well as what features it offers.
For ocing that will then go into another catagory all together since some boards will obviously see better results and remain stable over others by the same company! The rest depends on how many drives, devices you intend to install, how usb as well as sata ports even, if you plan to use onboard video or sound, and for SLI or Crossfire the chipset a board sees.
For ocing that will then go into another catagory all together since some boards will obviously see better results and remain stable over others by the same company! The rest depends on how many drives, devices you intend to install, how usb as well as sata ports even, if you plan to use onboard video or sound, and for SLI or Crossfire the chipset a board sees.
You won't simply find any specific key words. You have to go by the specifications to what it supports, what it has like the number of sata or usb ports, the bus speed and memory it supports, the socket type like 775 for Intel or AM2/AM2+ soon to see AM3 out, if it supports SLI or Crossfire depending on chipset, and the list goes on.
Quality and how good a board is again depends on who made it and the type of build as well as any plans to oc cpu, memory, video card(s). With two eSata external drives you may 6-8 sata ports while some boards only see 4 ports in case you plan to see more then one internal drive put to use as well as sata type optical drives where the additional ports will be a thought there.
Newer boards now are seeing 3 and 4 PCI-E 16x slots on the 2.0 boards coming out. For SLI or Crossfire things are going sideways like someone else mentioned some time back. Again that is something you look for in the specifications or product information.
But then you also have to know what is meant by a "good" board for what? That brings you right back to the type of build being planned. Will it be a dedicated gaming rig or a work horse for multitasking? Or will it be for some simple web browsing without all of the "bells + whistles"?
Quality and how good a board is again depends on who made it and the type of build as well as any plans to oc cpu, memory, video card(s). With two eSata external drives you may 6-8 sata ports while some boards only see 4 ports in case you plan to see more then one internal drive put to use as well as sata type optical drives where the additional ports will be a thought there.
Newer boards now are seeing 3 and 4 PCI-E 16x slots on the 2.0 boards coming out. For SLI or Crossfire things are going sideways like someone else mentioned some time back. Again that is something you look for in the specifications or product information.
But then you also have to know what is meant by a "good" board for what? That brings you right back to the type of build being planned. Will it be a dedicated gaming rig or a work horse for multitasking? Or will it be for some simple web browsing without all of the "bells + whistles"?