Friday, October 28, 2011

Finding the Best Motherboard - Quality over Quantity

By Joseph Robertson


When you embark on the task of building a gaming pc, typically one of the goals is to get the best of each sort of hardware. This is true whether or not you are looking for the true BEST motherboard (for example) - where you can look at each motherboard available, compare the offerings it has and take a look at baselines - and is true also when you are looking at getting the best motherboard for a certain price bracket (or any other piece of hardware).

So what does it mean to find the best element for a system? Talking motherboards, as well as the motherboard that has the best components built in and scores the best on charts, I suspect it is also important to take a look at the company that makes the motherboard. Does that company have a record of quality products, or did they have a record of Problems? How does the particular motherboard you're looking at get reviewed apropos equilibrium and quality?

When valuing hardware for building computers it is straightforward to simply look at charts. Charts provide us quantifiable interpretations of the 'power ' of each component. You could simply look at a chart for each element - motherboard, processor, video card, ram, drive, case, heatsink - pick the part at the very top of each one of these charts and build what you believe is "the best" computer.

What occurs if one of those parts is built by an organization that does not necessarily have the best previous record? You spend a specific amount of money but then run into issues and have to spend extra money before long. The longevity of that specific system - vis power - is not in question. Clearly by the charts it is at the top. The longevity is in query because the parts may not work best together or you will finish up with a washout element that causes issues and destroys your entire system.

So choosing a motherboard made by a good company is a part of the process of finding the best motherboard. At the moment there are 3 commonly referenced and respected motherboard makers - yes there are others, but these three are 'the best ' re quality. Asus, ASRock, and Gigabyte. I personally like Asus, as they have had a foundation of very good quality and wonderful customer service for a considerable time - I've used them almost exclusively for the past 10 years. So if you're trying to find the best motherboard, don't always glance at the top of the charts - keep an eye open for the one that's manufactured by the company with the best past record and consumer service, then look at the charts.




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