Motherboards Chipset confusion.

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Zinfandel, 24 Jun 2011.

  1. Zinfandel

    Zinfandel Modder

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    So... I've long not really understood why X1166 board costs so much more than Y1166 board. The socket doesn't matter, it could be anything.

    I mean, yes of course VRM heatsinks, better quality hardware, more sata ports, PCIE sockets, better overclocking potential, USB3.0, Sata 6gb etc etc.

    These things I understand.

    If you were offering advice to someone who absolutely categorically said to you that they will never be overclocking, will never have more than two hard drives or more than one GPU and will never use any expansion slots. Would there be any benefit in suggesting a £100 P67 over a £50 H61?

    Basically what I'm asking is why would you ever suggest anything but the cheapest board possible to someone who falls into 1HD, 1GPU, No expansion?
     
  2. Blogins

    Blogins Panda have Guns

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    Who said we would?

    Truth be told most people that find themselves on these forums are budding enthusiasts for the tech, so usually advice is dispensed towards that segment. Spend a little more now to keep your tech more relevant in future years is generally speaking good advice.
     
  3. faugusztin

    faugusztin I *am* the guy with two left hands

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    Never be overclocking - yeah, of course. And then in 1 year he comes back to forums asking how to overclock with his anti-overclock board.

    Again, this guy will come in year or two complaining that he has not enough RAM - and then you will see that he has the crappy H61 board with 2 memory slots already used...

    I would compare this pretty much to the computer cases. You can put your PC in a cardboard box, in a 20€ resonator (i call them like that because they start to resonate even from a slow running fan) or a 70-100€ lower mainstream case (Define R3, CM690 etc) which won't be the highend, but it won't be a "cut everything out, just to save few cents more" solution.

    For example, unless we talk about a ITX board i would never suggest a board with less than 4 memory module slots, i would never suggest a board without a full PCI-E x16 slot...
     
  4. Deders

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    Even some PCIe x16 implementations aren't as good as others, I'd avoid asrock unless there was something niche only they could supply but apart from that, whatever suits the build. I can't imagine anyone wanting to overclock an already decent media rig for instance.

    I remember the days when I could pick up a relatively featureless but very fast Nforce2 based chipset for around £40
     

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