Computer motherboards to purchase the six major points of attention

Before we purchase the motherboard, we should determine what kind of motherboard we want to choose, and what kind of motherboard is appropriate for us. The most expensive products are not necessarily the most suitable for us. Currently on the market motherboard products based on the support of the different CPU, its practical processor sockets are not the same. It is mainly divided into the Intel series and AMD series two major species. In these two types of purchase, you need to see your main use, if you are only used to deal with some of the daily files and the Internet and computers are not often in high-speed running, the state of the toaster, we suggest you matching AMD series of motherboards with better cost-effective AMD CPU. Conversely, the Intel family of motherboards can be considered with Intel's CPU.

At the same time, the position of the CPU socket is very important. If the CPU socket is too close to the top edge of the motherboard, it can be difficult to install a CPU heatsink in a case where the space is small or the power position is unreasonable (especially if you want to replace the heatsink without having to remove the entire motherboard). Similarly, the capacitance around the CPU socket should not be too close, otherwise, the installation of the radiator is inconvenient or even some large heatsink can not be installed, the second is likely to damage electrolytic capacitors.

Motherboard Capacitance Selection Considerations

The motherboard in the choice of capacitance is also very important, capacitance is the storage charge of the container, its role is to ensure the power supply to the motherboard and related accessories of the power supply stability, filter out the current clutter, and then the pure current output to the CPU and memory accessories. Capacitance on the motherboard stability, especially the main board power supply circuit used by the capacitor, this part of the capacitor mainly for the first filter input current, if this part of the capacitor problems will directly affect the stability of the computer.

The common capacitors on the motherboard are aluminum electrolytic capacitors, tantalum capacitors, ceramic chip capacitors and so on. Aluminum electrolytic Capacitor (upright capacitor) is our most common capacitor, generally in the CPU and memory slot near more, aluminum electrolytic capacitor large volume, large capacity, tantalum capacitor ceramic smd Capacitor generally relatively small, the appearance of a black patch-like, it small size, good heat resistance, low loss, but small capacity, generally applicable to high-frequency circuits, is heavily used on the motherboard and graphics card.

SMD Capacitor color is much brown, a large number of concentrated in the CPU socket slot. Tantalum capacitors are more SMD-type, which compared with ordinary electrolytic capacitors, can be more extended service life, with higher reliability, not easy to be affected by the high temperature of the salient features, belong to high-quality capacitors. The more tantalum capacitor on the motherboard, the better the motherboard, the quality of the motherboard is correspondingly higher, should pay more attention when purchasing.

Motherboard Thermal Performance Considerations

When choosing a motherboard, we should also note the thermal performance of the chipset. In particular, the North Bridge chip that controls memory and AGP graphics, from the beginning of the addition of the heatsink, to the addition of dedicated small fan, and then to today again appeared to remove the fan instead of using a large size of the heat sink, it looks like a circle and back to the original, not really. The reason for this is of course not only to reduce the noise problem. On the one hand, because of the smaller manufacturing process (0.18 micron) application of the North Bridge power consumption is relatively low, more importantly, to improve reliability.

The good thermal performance of the motherboard not only can effectively guarantee the stability of the whole machine for a long time, but also can further improve the overall overclocking performance of the computer.

　　Integrated chip and slot selection considerations

More and more motherboard manufacturers are emphasizing the high integration of products, including graphics cards, sound cards, network cards and other functions of the motherboard products in the market has been everywhere. In the purchase of such integrated motherboard products, the main or should consider the user's own needs, it should also be noted that these integrated control chips in the performance is still slightly inferior to the same high-end board products, so if the consumer in a certain aspect of high demand, then or should buy the corresponding board to achieve higher performance.

The choice of the number of motherboard slots should be the same, mainly considering their own needs. If you need to use a large number of expansion cards to implement some additional functionality, you should choose a product that has more slots for expansion. If you want to configure high-capacity memory, you should pick a product with more DIMM memory slots.

Therefore, in the purchase or should pay attention to the actual use of the product requirements to avoid the occurrence of functional overlap or the phenomenon of waste of functions

　　Select the latest technology considerations

In the purchase of such motherboards products should first consider whether they have actual needs, must not blindly pursue high-performance products. To know that the current development of product technology is very fast, perhaps when you do not use this technology, the price has been greatly reduced.

　Brand and after-sales service attention matters

Therefore, as a buyer, should first consider the product brand. A strong motherboard brand, in order to launch their own brand of the motherboard, from the product design, selection screening, Process control, quality management testing, to the packaging transport must undergo very strict checks. Such a brand is guaranteed to the motherboard, for your entire computer stable operation provides a solid guarantee.

Finally, regardless of the choice of the grade of the motherboard, before the purchase must carefully understand the manufacturer's after-sales service. If manufacturers can provide comprehensive quality assurance services, including products sold when the warranty card, the commitment to the product of the length of time, product specifications and packaging, accessories to provide integrity.