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Hm, also some features (e.g. USB C/3.1 headers) were only available on high-end gaming MoBos for quite a long time, making the whole build power-hungry and need
by bipson 5y ago
Hm, also some features (e.g. USB C/3.1 headers) were only available on high-end gaming MoBos for quite a long time, making the whole build power-hungry and needlessly fragile.
Before that, MoBo manufacturers even made extensive use of additional chips for networking, USB, mora SATA ports, RAID and what not, which could make the whole system more complicated/fragile (all the additional drivers!).
I nowadays try to avoid that and aim for boards close to "reference" (whatever the chipset offers out of the box).
- mattferderer 5y agoI didn't mean to call out anything against gaming rigs. Some of my components have been marketed towards gamers. Many of the better motherboards often are, excluding the very serious motherboards. I just never bought a very expensive video card & I can't comment on how long a good one would last. I imagine it depends on to many variables from the games you play, the settings of the games you're okay with, the card, etc..