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Choosing the right motherboard

Choosing the right motherboard

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Choosing the right motherboard

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- The motherboard is the backbone of a PC. The type and model you choose will have a big impact on your system. It will also decide which components you can use. What should you look for when picking a motherboard and where can you find that information? Let's explore that together in this episode as we learn how to choose the right motherboard. First, we need to think about how we're going to use the motherboard. Are we doing something simple like building a desktop or a laptop build, or are we doing a server build which would take a multi-socket motherboard? A multi-socket motherboard can hold multiple processors physically installed at the same time. For this video, let's keep it simple. We'll focus on building a desktop computer. Here's where it gets interesting. We have a bit of a chicken and an egg dilemma. Do we choose the CPU first which impacts the motherboards are compatible, or do we choose the motherboard first which limits what CPUs we can use? Motherboards are typically…

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