Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Motherboard buying guide

When you start building a personal computer, the model of motherboard probably the first thing to consider. It connects the almost all the other hardware that you need in a computer such as CPU, memory, an AGP or PCI-e video card. All of them must be properly connected to the motherboard. As a result, it would be kind of motherboard that you choose which processor and video card can affect you.


You may not know exactly what brand you choose when you go to motherboard, because there are so many of them in the market such as gigbyte, esc and ASUS. Well, it would be wiser to look of the chipset in place of the brand of the motherboard as almost all the mainboards mainly 3 different chipsets use regardless of who the motherboard manufactures. In fact, you will find that all motherboards are equipped with both SiS, VIA or NVIDIA whereas SiS focus on the lower end market nVidia is known in the higher end chipset market.When you compare the mainboards, look at what the chipset on the motherboard, usually, because the North Bridge the communication speed and the processor, memory and video card are managing. so if you want a faster CPU and memory, make sure your motherboard supports that or at least your mainboards supports a higher speed front side bus (FSB), which gives you the room you need to upgrade in the future.

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