Tips on Choosing a Motherboard

If you are going to buy the motherboard, perhaps some of the following bias used as a guide so that you can choose the right motherboard and not only affected the brand or advertising.
 

1. Determine the brand and type of processor used.

        Motherboard is closely related to the type of processor used. Because if you are wrong in choosing to   place the processor socket, then certainly you do not bias the processor to work.

• If you use a processor Pentium III or Celeron intel, choose a motherboard that has a 370 pin.

• If using a athlon or Duron processor, use a motherboard that has a 462 pin.

• If using a Pentium 4 processor, select motherboards PGA Socket 423 (for architectural 12:18 microns) and soketmini BGA 478 pin (for architectural 12:13 microns). 

     2.  Choose a motherboard that is able to anticipate the development of computer technology.

        The development of computer hardware so quickly and unexpectedly. Choose a motherboard that is     able to anticipate the development of computer hardware such as RAM (compatible IMB select for SDRAM or DDR SDRAM), hard drive (select the interface that supports Ultra ATA/100 hard drive) and that have support for the AGP port. 

      3. Choosing the appropriate motherboard chipset.

Errors in choosing chipset, will make the performance of your computer to become unstable. But the many options available, it will probably make you a little confused, but you can use some of the following as a guide:

•  For an Intel Pentium III or Celeron generation up, select motherboards with Intel 815E chipset, 815EP, VIA Apollo series, SIS series 63 X or Ali Aladdin Pro series.

• To processors or AMD Duron Althon, select a motherboard with a VIA chipset series KT, Ali Magik 1, or SiS 73x series.

         To add a reference, it helps if you read some magazines or Internet sites of the chipset so that you are  aware of the comparison with one another.

    4. Choose a motherboard that features additional ports is adequate.      Features additional ports are important enough to be owned by other inter motherboard socket is sufficient amount (minimum has 3 DIMM sockets), has an AGP port, USB port, slot AMR (Audio Modem Riser) and so on.

     5. Choose a motherboard that offers the ability overclocking via BIOS.        With overclocking via BIOS, then you will be able to easily manage increases in frequency and voltage processor and memory gradually and has a minimal risk of damage.

     6. Adjust your financial condition.        This section that is the most important. Buying a good motherboard, it is usually expensive. But it does not have to be expensive, or at least be able to choose from a variety of alternatives that will make andatidak need to spend too deep. For example, by selecting a motherboard that has a direct integration with other cards like graphics cards, sound cards, LAN cards, and so on. At least you'll make a little thrifty and do not need to buy a device that is contained directly in the motherboard.