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All About Motherboards
upgrade, you will likely switch to new technology and a new motherboard. The third approach
is to select a motherboard that meets your present needs with moderate room for expansion.
Ask the following questions when selecting a motherboard:
1. What form factor does the motherboard use?
2. Does the motherboard support the number and type of processor you plan to use (for
example, Socket LGA 775 for the Intel Pentium Dual Core processor up to 3.3GHz)?
3. What are the supported frequencies of the system bus (for example, 1066/800/
533 MHz)?
4. What chipset does the board use?
5. What type of memory does the board support (DDR2 or DDR3), and how much
memory can the board hold?
6. What type and how many expansion slots are on the board (for example, PCI, PCI
Express 2.0, or AGP)?
7. What hard drive controllers and connectors are on the board (for example, IDE, serial
ATA, RAID, and SCSI)?
8. What are the embedded devices on the board, and what internal slots or connections
does the board have? (For example, the board might provide a network port, wireless
antenna port, FireWire port, two or more USB ports, mouse port, and so forth.)
9. Does the board fit the case you plan to use?
10. What are the price and the warranty on the board?
11. How extensive and user-friendly is the documentation?
12. How much support does the manufacturer supply for the board?
Figure 3-30 The coin-cell battery powers CMOS RAM when the system is turned off
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