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Allows for power delivery from the power supply through the motherboard to the CPU. Allows for power delivery from the power supply through the motherboard to a variety the connected components, such as PCIe components, RAM, and certain kinds of storage. Before you choose a motherboard, check the documentation and support that's available for it, as well as the BIOS and driver updates available.
Some people think that a motherboard that has many patches and updates available must be a bad motherboard. Not true. Frequent patch and update releases indicate that the manufacturer takes support seriously.
We recommend to friends and clients that they give great weight to and perhaps even base their buying decisions on the quality of the web site that supports the motherboard. Manufacturers differ greatly in the quality of the motherboards they produce. Other manufacturers produce motherboards of varying quality; some good and some not so good. Still other manufacturers produce only junk. The preceding issues are always important in choosing a motherboard. But there are many other motherboard characteristics to keep in mind.
Some of them may be critical for some users and of little concern to others. These characteristics include:. Any motherboard provides expansion slots, but motherboards differ in how many slots they provide, and of what types:.
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect slots have been the standard type of expansion slot for more than a decade. PCI slots accept expansion cards such as LAN adapters, sound cards, and so on that add various features to a system.
PCI slots are available in bit and bit versions, although bit PCI slots are commonly found only on server motherboards. A motherboard may have zero, one, or two dedicated video card slots. The type of video slot determines the type of video card you can install.
AGP video adapters are still popular and widely available, but PCI Express is fast becoming the dominant video adapter slot standard. Otherwise, buy a motherboard, with or without embedded video, that provides a PCI Express x16 video slot. Do not buy any motherboard that provides embedded video but no separate video slot. Many motherboards with a PCI Express x16 video slot also provide one or more PCI Express x1 general-purpose expansion slots, usually in place of one or two of the PCI expansion slots, but sometimes in addition to them.
For the immediate future, PCI Express x1 slots are relatively useless, because there are few expansion cards that fit them. Years ago, many PCs had all or nearly all of their slots occupied. Nowadays, with so many functions integrated on motherboards, it's common to see PCs with at most one or two slots occupied, so the number of slots available is much less important than it used to be.
It's still important to get the types of slots you want, though. The same motherboard is often available as an OEM product and a retail-boxed product. In fact, both forms of packaging are sold in retail channels.
The motherboard is identical or closely similar in either case, but there are differences. For example, the OEM version might have only a one-year warranty, while the retail-boxed version of the same motherboard has a three-year warranty. Also, the retail-boxed version often includes cables, adapters, a case label, a setup CD, and similar small parts that are not included with the OEM product.
Otherwise, buy the OEM version. There may be variations in the actual product between OEM and retail-boxed motherboards. For example, Intel often manufactures three to six variants of a motherboard, which may differ in minor ways such as board color and in more significant ways, such as the speed of the embedded network adapter, whether FireWire support is included, and so on.
Some of these variants are available in both OEM and retail-boxed forms, and others in only one form or the other. Some variants aren't available to individual buyers. They're sold only in what Intel calls "bulk packaging," which means that the minimum order is a pallet load. Only large system makers buy bulk Intel motherboards. It may seem strange to minimize the importance of warranty, but the truth is that warranty should not usually be a major consideration.
Motherboards generally work or they don't. If a motherboard is going to fail, it will likely do so right out of the box or within a few days of use. Verity Author. Cookies on BT Shop We use cookies to do things like remember what you've added to your shopping basket and show you content we think you'll be interested in. About cookies. About cookies Some cookies are essential - we can't provide our services without them. Edit settings.
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