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In Depth: New motherboard tech: key advances explained

By TechRadar, published 20-02-2011

What kind of motherboard do you have exactly? Do you in fact know much about it? When specifying a system you probably start with what processor to buy, followed by the graphics card, memory and drives you want. It's at this point you probably pick a suitable board with enough ports and slots to plug it all together. The trouble is that processors are rapidly gaining functions, and since Intel and AMD make the motherboard chipsets too, what's left for the motherboard techies to work on to create compelling boards? As long as a board supports the chip and memory combination you've got in mind and has a sufficiency of SATA and USB ports, who cares? Mobos used to be arcane beasts, and blowing one up wasn't that difficult. Components could be plugged in backwards and there were jumpers and DIP...