Everything About PC Motherboard

Another of Intel Core i7 capable motherboards, from one of Taiwan’s largest manufacturers of PC related hardware, loaded with Intel’s X58/CH10R architecture it’s one heck of a gaming PC board. It supports the Core i7 Extreme Edition with dynamic speed control that allows utmost configuration control with minimal fuss. Capable of 6X4 Gigabyte Dimms, it can also go as far as 24 gigabytes of DDR3 for that seamless gaming support with triple channel memory architecture. The motherboard is NVIDIA SLI /ATI CrossfireX capable to allow multiple GPU support for fast and crisp play time. Hailed as one of the best gaming boards today, it has unsurpassed reliability and being part of the elite ROG line, it has the ability to address memory issues automatically to get you bak on track to using your PC fast. [Read more →]

Another of the leading motherboard makers, this board from MSI is designed to support Intel’s Core i7 Series of Processors. Loaded with six memory slots allowing a maximum 24 Gigabytes of ram for seamless gaming performance. One of the new generation all solid state boards without using electrolytic capacitors for utmost performance, without the strains of heat stress that tends to lessen the effectivity of on-board components. Designed to efficiently function with the desktop’s power supply unit, it adjusts power according to demand with on-board power load indicators that shows you how much load the PSU is taking. Featuring fully automated overclocking abilities with an interface that takes care of the thinking, eliminating performance issues of the past due to erroneous configuration. [Read more →]

Inspired by their success as one of the most prolific manufacturers of video cards on the market, they have come up with their own motherboards to further enhance the abilities of their video cards with added support and extensions for their famed gaming video cards. Delivering top performance 1600 MHz FSB for Intel CPUs allowing easy overclocking, along with their ultra-high performance with Direct X 10 assuring unparalleled gaming performance. Their motherboard is one of the first to support DDR3-2Gz memory modules that are the next step for the PC industry, allowing every faster performance at every level. [Read more →]

Dell has pointed to a supposed flaw with regard to the compatibility of their motherboards with the Nvidia graphics chip. The computer manufacturer has already contacted several of their vendors and distributors who have stocks of these products to return affected units to them.

Here’s an excerpt from the original article:

Dell Computer will start contacting some commercial PC owners about replacing their PC’s motherboard because of a flaw in the Nvidia graphics chip. A Dell representative characterized the action as a “proactive replacement” and “not a recall.” The problem has to do with a flaw in how the Nvidia graphics chip works on the motherboards of OptiPlex GX200 computers. The glitch could cause images to be displayed improperly.

However, an Nvdia spokesperson clarified that the problem isn’t exactly with thier graphics chip, and assured consumers that they are working closely with Dell to sort the whole thing out. This is not the first time Dell has experienced problems with their hardware - just a couple of months ago, Dell had to recall several of their laptops which had defective batteries.

For the sake of the consumers, we hope all of this gets sorted out soon and the new units be shipped out so everyone can be happy again.

Extreme gamers use these parts of the motherboard to maximize its capabilities allowing it to go beyond the set safe limits for the specific board design. Most gaming motherboards have several user-selectable modes that allows the setting of several jumpers and dip switches (functions in the same manner) to attain a specific setting. The jumper block as it is called is used to wither short or open a jumper point (signified by gold pins). DIP switches are minuscule switches that are used to do the same.
[Read more →]

There’s a new PC motherboard in town: the GeForce 9300, and it seems to be a winner:

XFX has launched a new GeForce series of motherboard - GeForce 9300. Featuring state-of-the-art CUDA technology, integrated HDMI and DVI, PCI Express 2.0 and SATA II 3 Gb/s, the GeForce 9300 motherboard offers exceptional graphics performance, the company said.

CUDA technology taps into the many-core parallel processor power of the GPU to accelerate applications. And Hybrid Power technology allows the GPU to shut-off during non-resource-intensive applications, and instead use the integrated GPU.

The XFX GeForce 9300 motherboard features DDR2 memory controller that allows high bandwidth and low latency data access to the CPU, ensuring that data and information are relayed through the system as quickly as possible for unparalleled performance.

More info here.

Image Source: pcwatch.com

A circuit that connects a part of your motherboard to another part is what you call a, BUS. If the bus is capable handling more data at any given time, it would sum up to faster travel of information to and fro. Bus speed is measured in MHZ or Megahertz. The unit refers to the volume of data that can travel across the bus at the same time. It can sometimes also refer to the FSB or front side bus speed. FSB simply connects the central processing unit to its northbridge. FSBs range in speed. Usually from 66MHz to 800MHz. The FSB speed is important in a computer’s overall performance in its SPEED aspect. You have to know that having a fast BUS speed does not do anything drastic to a slower processor.

Image Source: cache-www.intel.com

I recently bought this at a local distributor. I decide to get this so i can use it for my Home Theater PC or HTPC which is low powered. I prefered this cheap and CPU which requires a minimal power consumption. It was important for the video to perform the hardware decoding of Hi Def contents as with Blu Ray and HD DVD. I did not even choose an onboard video card because it will definitely consume too much power. And so far, this ingenius piece of miracle has met all the requirements. I am using an Intel Core2Duo E7200 CPU, with 2GB of RAM and Windows Vista Ultimate operating system. I can play Blu Ray movies without glitches. While using Total Media Theatre or TMT. Amazingly, the CPU is consuming just about 20% of resources. The only problem i encountered with the product is, it is unstable when in sleep and standby mode. The unit sometimes does not engage into sleep mode even if it’s idle for quite some time. But sometime it does work. I have reported this proble with the company Intel but unfortunately, they havent responded with regards to the problem. Maybe they could come up with a fix more likely a BIOS update.

Image Source: igniq.com

Motherboard represents as the heart of the computer system. It connects all the other parts together and make sure they run altogether smoothly. Choosing the best gaming motherboard is the most important task you need in assembling a gaming computer. First, is you need to decide which type of CPU to use. Determine if the motherboard supports the type of CPU you chose. If you are overclocking your CPU, you have to get a motherboard that allows you to change the FSB speed. Your motherboard must be able to support DDR2 RAM, DDR2 is at present the fastest RAM in the market. Next is SLI / Crossfire. Crossfire ready motherboard means that you can make use of two identical high performing graphics card to render the graphics, thus achieving a faster and more realistic video effects. When getting the best gaming motherboard, it is worthwhile to do extensive research online or through magazines. It is the most important part of the whole computer system, so don’t try to shave off budget for the motherboard.

Image source: www.geekmungus.co.uk
A motherboard is the central or main circuit board making up a multifaceted electronic system, such as a modern computer. It is also recognized as a mainboard, baseboard, system board, or, on Apple computers, a logic board, and is from time to time abbreviated as mobo.[1]
Most after-market motherboards formed today are designed for so-called IBM-compatible computers, which hold over 96% of the personal computer market today.[2] Motherboards for IBM-compatible computers are specifically enclosed in the PC motherboard article.
The basic purpose of the motherboard, like a backplane, is to supply the electrical and logical connections by which the other components of the system communicate.
A archetypal desktop computer is built with the microprocessor, main memory, and other essential components on the motherboard. Other components such as external storage, controllers for video display and sound, and peripheral devices are typically attached to the motherboard via edge connectors and cables, although in modern computers it is increasingly common to integrate these “peripherals” into the motherboard.