Crash course in motherboards and advice

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tlgriffith

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I've been reading around forums and google to find an understanding in motherboards but haven't been to successful. My purpose in this quest is to justify the kind of motherboard that best suits a PC build. The problem is I have no understanding of the limitations the MOBO can have on the rest o the hardware and in the future. For example, I selected the tomshardware $220 pick for the month of August (i5-3750k) CPU of choice, but apparently people are saying the LGA 1155 socket configuration is a dying breed compared to something called Haswell. What do I have to consider? What should I be looking for in the MOBO to prevent bottlenecking the processor or graphic card. What defines the quality of a MOBO other than how many graphic cards or RAM sticks it can support? Does anyone have a crash course in MOBOs for dummies without to much technical language? Thanks.
 
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well the 1155 socket is discontinued so no new cpu's will be made using that socket so any upgrade in future will require a new motherboard, haswell is intels new generation of cpu it uses socket 1150, if your buying a 3570k or a 4670k the chipset is important for overclocking a 3570k needs a z77 chipset or the 4670k needs z78 chipset,
its important to know what your doing with the pc before you buy the motherboard will you need a soundcard are you just going to use the onboard audio so want quality audio on board or what gpu you will be using will you sli or crossfire in future is that supported, issues with some cheaper motherboards can be the power phase limiting your overclocking capability, motherboards with PCIe 3.0 (x16) for gpu won't bottleneck any gpu and generally speaking as long as your on a reputable website or shop the dearer the motherboard the better quality components will be used in its making so each manufacturer like asus, msi, gigabyte and asrock have there motherboards all priced in certain ranges for extra features,
my usual way of deciding is having a budget set and keeping the gpu around a third of the budget and keeping the motherboard at the same level of price or less than the cpu unless after all the other components i have to get there is extra money left so if £1000 budget £300 for gpu £200 cpu £150 to £200 motherboard leaves you £300 to £350 for ram, case, psu any hdd's or ssd
 
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