TIPS Buy Motherboard for Your Computer

If you want to buy a motherboard you must notice some things. So you do not need to make regretting any more. There some tips for your consideration to buy motherboard.

1. Adjust Brand between Motherboard and Processor

Motherboard as a connector for many devices has important relationship with type of processor. Because if you chose wrong socket to processor. May simply, your processor can not attached and work properly. For example, if you use Processor Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (Prestonia) so you can use motherboard with socket LGA 775.

There are some socket specification and their processor

2. Buy Motherboard that Can Anticipated Growth of Epoch

Growth of Computer is really faster, so you need a motherboard that has ability to accommodate that growth. Chose motherboard that can anticipated growth of computer devices like RAM (chose MB which compatible for SDRAM or DDR SDRAM), Harddisk (chose that support harddisk interface Ultra ATA / 100) and support AGP Port.

3. Motherboard with Appropriate Chipset

Take mistake on chipset choosing, will decrease your processor performance and your computer will be unstable. But many number of choice can make we confuse, at least you can paid your attention on some things above

- For Intel Pentium processor or Celeron Third Generation and more, chose motherboard with Intel 815E chipset, 815EP, VIA Apollo series, SIS 63X series or Ali Aladdin Pro series
- For AMD Athlon or Duron Processor, chose motherboard with VIA chipset KT series, Ali Magic 1 or SIS 73X series

4. Motherboard with many ports

Some additional Port which enough important are amount of adequate socket (minimal have 3 sockets DIMM), have AGP port, USB port, AMR (Audio Modem Riser) and so on.


5. Motherboard that Offering Overclocking Ability From BIOS

With overclocking from BIOS, you can get easily for controlling frequency increases and voltage of processor and memory step by step and also minimalist risk to computer broken.

6. Corresponding to Your Finance Condition

This is most important part. Buy a good motherboard usually need much money. But don’t need to spend to much, if you buy motherboard that have direct integration with other Cards like VGA Card, Sound Card, LAN Card and any else.

But if you need more performance from your computer, buying those cards separately (buy with the specification that you want) is better for you.

So it’s depend no you.

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