Choosing a desired Motherboard!!!

saifraja

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Intel pentium G4560 is the processor
WD's 1 Tb Caviar Black as Storage
Entry level Psu

This is my first Budget Build Pc

There are 2 concerns regarding motherboard

1) I do not wish to pay more for additional functions of a motherboard which i m not even gonna use like crossfire.

2) A motherboard that will utilize this cpu to its fullest.

Things that i want to use in mobo

Zotac gefore gtx 1050 ti*
Atleast 16 Gb of Ram*

Things which i will never use in mobo

Multi Gpus*
Cpu Cooler*
Overclocking*
More than 32 Gb Ram*

I stay in India, Mumbai (INR)

Why pay for features that never gonna be used

I have selected a few of my own but i doubt i am paying extra and hence the dilemma

Asrock b250m pro4
Gigabyte B250M DS3H
Msi b250m mortar arctic

Please do explain the use of each slot of your motherboard. I hope you guys understand my concerns.



 

Eximo

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M.2 slots : mSATA and NVMe SSD drives. Also capable of laptop style wireless cards.
PCIe 1x : Usually used for add-on network, sound, or disc controllers
PCIe 16x : Typically graphics cards. Some specialty cards make use of the high bandwidth (These are still usable for any length of card, you will often see x16 slots only wired for 4x or 8x as well)
SATA III : Sata disc drives and SSDs
SATA Express (U.2) : Primarily a dis-used standard, that has seen some adoption in the server market. (M.2 basically replaced it on the consumer market.
Varous USB ports: USB 3.0 and 2.0 headers for connecting to the case's external ports or internal devices that require USB (some water coolers, RGB lighting kits, etc)
You'll have internal sound ports for connecting to the front panel as well.

Those are the basics that most contemporary motherboards might have. On higher end boards there might be more stuff like thunderbolt. A few boards now have risers with all kinds of silly things.

 


SATA-Express is not U.2 FYI, U.2 is the same electrically as M.2 but a different connector.